This study set up to investigate the validity of different oral tasks, namely topic-based and picture-based narratives, as data elicitation tasks. Our ultimate goal was to examine whether these two types of narratives would impact upon intermediate learners' L2 oral production, regarding their use of communication strategies (CS) during speech performance. Spearman correlational tests were run so as to check for ranking and frequency of the strategies used by participants in each narrative task. Results indicate that the type of task and its intrinsic characteristics may affect the use of CS in terms of frequency. Additionally, results show that the participants tended to experience fewer difficulties when performing the picturebased narrative, which led them to use a fewer number of strategies. On the contrary, the two topic-based narratives led participants to apply a greater number of CS.
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