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"Spring 2012 The Effect of Task Type and Pre-task Planning Condition on the Accuracy of Intermediate EFL Learners' Writing Performance Seyyed Mohammad Ala vi Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, Universtiy of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
writing sections of the test were In addition, in order to examine the probable effects of different task types on the subjects' performance, following Skehan and Foster (1999), two task types of different levels of complexity including three personal and three decision-making tasks were applied in the present study.
In sum, what merits attention is that the researcher sought to investigate the effect of task type and pre-task planning condition on the accuracy of intermediate EFL learners' writing performance through the analysis of the learners’ accuracy scores in personal and decision-making tasks using a two-way ANOVA and two one- way ANOVAs. Having previously checked the degree of groups’ homogeneity through Analysis of Variance, no statistically significant group differences were found in their PET proficiency scores, F(3, 97)=0.
Consequently, the third null hypothesis to the effect that there is no significant difference in the writing accuracy of Iranian EFL learners in different pre-task planning conditions in performing personal task is rejected.
However, while the results of the study revealed that decision- making tasks improved the writing accuracy of intermediate EFL learners, the future researchers should take caution in generalizing the findings to other levels of language proficiency since there exists much debate on this controversial issue."