Promoting EFL students’ accuracy and fluency through interactive practice activities

• Authors: Kim McDonough , Masatoshi Sato
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study examined the effectiveness of interactive activities at facilitating EFL students’ production of English relative clauses. Thirty-seven EFL learners in Chile carried out interactive activities designed to elicit relative clauses. Pre- and posttests were used to examine whether carrying out the activities facilitated the students’ production of relative clauses. All interactions were audio-recorded and the transcripts were analyzed to determine how accurately and fluently the students produced relative clauses before, during, and after the practice activities. Whereas accuracy was defined as errors involving relative clause formation, fluency was operationalized in terms of the number of pauses, false starts, and self-corrections that occurred within relative clauses. The results showed that the students produced significantly more accurate relative clauses on the posttest; however, their production of dysfluencies remained unchanged. Implications for the use of interactive activities are discussed.   

Keywords

EN

interactive activities; skill acquisition theory; accuracy and fluency; structural priming; EFL

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 379-395

Dates

published

2019-07-01

Contributors

author

Kim McDonough

• Concordia University, Montreal

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3165-9687

author

Masatoshi Sato

• Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7111-3406

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/ssllt.2019.9.2.6