The Role of Brainstorming and Strategic Planning as Pre-tasks on EFL Learners' Speaking Accuracy and Fluency

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

Sanaz Khademi Hossseini ¹ , Bahman Gorjian ²

1 - Department of English, Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran
2 - TEFL Dept., Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University,Abadan, Iran

Received: 2018-12-18 Accepted : 2019-01-23 Published : 2019-03-01

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