چکیده:
The main purpose of the study reported in this paper was to examine the interrelationships between L2 risk-taking, English learning motivation, L2 speaking anxiety, linguistic confidence, and low-proficiency English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ speaking complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). A secondary purpose was to test whether task repetition can influence the level of the mentioned affective variables as well as to study its effects on the development of CAF in L2 oral production. To this end, a questionnaire designed to measure the affective variables was given to 142 Iranian female pre-intermediate EFL learners. Then, they were randomly assigned to one of two groups: task repetition or control. The participants in the task repetition group were required to do an interactive story telling task on five occasions, each one week apart. Meanwhile, the participants in the control group were required to perform the task only on occasions one and five at an interval of three weeks. The questionnaire was given to them at the end of the study too. The findings suggest that: (1) learner variables influence the development of L2 proficiency components (CAF) and (2) task repetition can help EFL learners work on their language problems in a familiar setting and hence help them develop their interlanguage.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Influence of Affective Variables on the Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in L2 Oral Production: The Contribution of Task Repetition* Mohammad Amir Yousefi** Assistant Professor of TEFL, University of Isfahan Abstract The main purpose of the study reported in this paper was to examine the interrelationships between L2 risk-taking, English learning motivation, L2 speaking anxiety, linguistic confidence, and low-proficiency English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ speaking complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF).
Table 4 Results of independent-samples t-tests for posttest scores Note: SC = Syntactic complexity, SV = Syntactic variety, EFC = Error- free clauses, CVF = Correct verb forms Table 5 Results of Mann-Whitney U test for posttest scores Note: OC = Overall complexity Discussion and conclusion The aim of the present study was twofold: (1) to explore the relationships between English learning motivation, L2 speaking anxiety, linguistic confidence, L2 risk-taking, and the Iranian pre- intermediate EFL learners' speaking CAF dimensions and (2) to examine the effects of task repetition on the participants' speaking CAF dimensions and on the level of the mentioned affective variables.
The results overall showed that: (1) there were positive relationships between English learning motivation and all CAF subdimensions, and between linguistic confidence, L2 risk-taking, and the syntactic variety in the participants’ L2 oral production and (2) task repetition positively affected the participants' L2 speaking complexity by increasing the level of syntactic variety and syntactic complexity, and speaking accuracy by increasing the number of correct verb forms."