The Effect of Competitive Role-play Task on Young Adult Persian EFL learners' Fluency

The present study was an attempt to find the effect of using competitive role-play (CRP) task on EFL learners' fluency. The researcher aimed to find out whether or not the use of CRP task results in improvement in EFL learners' fluency in their oral production. Seventeen female pre-intermediate EFL learners from two intact classes participated in this study. The pre-test results were analyzed to make sure of the groups' homogeneity, and the groups were proven to be homogeneous prior to the study. Participants in the experimental group were required to do CRP task every other session during 20 sessions. Participants in the control group, meanwhile, were not required to do the task but only practice the usual speaking practices available in their course book. Results revealed that the use of CRP task assisted subjects in the experimental group to outperform those in the control group in terms of fluency both in the pre- and post-tests. In conclusion, it is claimed that the use of CRP task improve EFL learners' fluency in oral production in terms of the rate of speech.

کلیدواژه ها:

Role-paly ، Fluency ، Competitive task ، EFL learners