Audiotaped Dialogue Journal: A Technique to Improve Speaking Skill of Iranian EFL Learners

Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice

مقاله 8، دوره 1، شماره 3، بهمن 2008، صفحه 164-176   

نوع مقاله: Research Paper

نویسندگان

Mojgan Rashtchi؛ Babak Khoshnevisan

Islamic Azad University-North Tehran Branch

چکیده

 
This study attempted to investigate whether there was any significant difference between the speaking achievement of learners who were trained by means of audiotaped dialogue journal, dialogue journal writing, or traditional free speech. The participants, 45 male and female students aged between 21 and 32, were selected by random sampling from among free speech classes in an English teaching Institute in Tehran. On the basis of the scores obtained from an oral interview, a one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed, and it was proved that the three groups were homogeneous in terms of their speaking ability. Yet, the ANOVA performed on the scores of the learners after the treatment showed that the oral proficiency of the three groups differed significantly. A follow-up Tukey test revealed that the audiotaped dialogue journal group did not have any advantage over the dialogue journal writing group, whereas there was a statistically significant difference between the audiotaped dialogue journal group and the traditional free speech group.
 
 

کلیدواژه‌ها

Speaking Skill؛ Dialogue Journal Writing؛ Audiotaped Dialogue Journal؛ Traditional Free Speech

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