The influence of task repetition and task structure on EFL learners' oral narrative retellings

The effect of task modality and discourse mode on EFL learners’ narrative task performance

“…Studies conducted on the impact of within-task planning or on-line planning (e.g., Ahmadian, 2012;Ellis, 1987;Ellis & Yuan, 2004;Sangarun, 2005) indicated that planning one's attentional resources at the time of doing the task enables learner to focus more on accuracy. Moreover, studies on post-task effect (e.g., Fukunta, 2015;Saeedi & Rahimi Kazerooni, 2014;Skehan & Foster, 1997 have demonstrated the beneficial effect of activities such as transcribing one's speech or re-doing the task publicly or privately on learners' accuracy.…”

On the Impacts of Pressured vs. Unpressured On-line Task Planning on EFL Students’ Oral Production in Classroom and Testing Contexts

“…As for students' oral production, the majority of these studies have made use of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) indices to measure students' performance. It has generally been demonstrated that pre-task planning has positive impacts on students' oral production fluency and complexity (e.g., Ellis, 2009;Saeedi, 2013); however, regarding students' oral production accuracy, the results have been largely inconclusive with some showing positive impacts (e.g., Tavakoli & Skehan, 2005) and some showing no significant impacts (e.g., Yuan & Ellis, 2003) of pre-task planning on students' oral production.…”

The Distinctive Nature of Task Repetition in Writing. Implications for Theory, Research, and Pedagogy

“…Bygate, 1996;Gass et al, 1993;Kim & Tracy-Ventura, 2013;Patanasorn, 2010), and/or CAF measures of the speech produced (i.e., complexity, accuracy, and fluency, cf. Ahmadian & Tavakoli, 2010;Bygate, 2001;Kim & Tracy-Ventura, 2013;Lynch & Maclean, 2000;Saeedi & Kazerooni, 2014), looking at both short-term and longer-term changes, in the latter case ranging from 4 weeks (cf. Kim & Tracy-Ventura, Rosa M. Manchón DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/elia.2014.i14.02 2013) to 10 weeks (cf.…”