چکیده:
This study's main purpose was to elicit speaking strategies employed by Iranian Learners of English across proficiency whilst they noticed a gap/hole in their inter language repertoire amid a conversation compensating for their lack of fluent speaking ability. Therefore, initially 30 EFL learners, at different levels of proficiency, participated in the first phase of the study. Based on the EFL learners' elicited viewpoints, both via group and one-on-one interviews, a 25-item speaking strategy questionnaire was developed and subsequently, distributed amongst 156 EFL learners to fill out. In order to decide on a subset of frequent responses and eliminate the redundant ones, factor analysis was applied and 6 components were extracted. The components fell on a continuum of noticing the gap, noticing the hole and noticing the gap/hole strategies. This representation unfolded speaking gap fillers strategies. In addition One-way Kruskal-Wallis was run in order to determine the effect of proficiency levels on speaking strategy use. The outcome revealed a significant difference on language strategy use across proficiency.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Iranian EFL Learners' Favored Strategic Fillers for Noticed Gaps amid Conversations Across Proficiency Tania Samadian PhD Candidate, Department of English, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 1 Parviz Birjandi Full Professor, Department of English, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Received on June 8, 2014 Accepted on December 25, 2014 Abstract This study's main purpose was to elicit speaking strategies employed by Iranian Learners of English across proficiency whilst they noticed a gap/hole in their inter language repertoire amid a conversation compensating for their lack of fluent speaking ability.
1. 1 Statement of the problem and purpose of the study Although many researchers have investigated strategies, few have done research on language learning strategies focusing on speaking (Nakatani2006; Razmjoo & Ghasemi, 2011; Yaman & Kavasoglu, 2013); to fill this gap, this study intended to explore and develop a speaking strategy representation for EFL learners when noticing a gap/hole in their Inter language.
1. 2 Research Questions The present study aims to find answers to the following questions: (1) what kinds of speaking strategies, if any, are used by EFL learners when they notice gap/hole in their Inter language?
1 Participants Phase 1: In the first phase, a sample of 40 Iranian EFL students studying Teaching English and English Translation at Islamic Azad University Southern Branch was selected in order to develop a noticing the gap/ hole questionnaire.
The items of the questionnaire included speaking strategies that adult EFL learners apply and use when they notice a gap/hole in their Inter language while speaking.
e. One-way Kruskal-Wallis test was run to reveal the effect of participants’ levels of proficiency (Modest User / Elementary; Competent Users/ Intermediate; Good User/ Advance) on their speaking strategy use."