Immediate task repetition benefits oral performance, including fluency, self-correction and reduced anxiety¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Research on task repetition has consistently found a positive effect on fluency, and repetition tends to reduce anxiety, especially for less confident learners. → Rafael Zaccaron 2019

Evidence¶

Rafael Zaccaron 2019¶

Rafael Zaccaron. (2019). Ideas for integrating meaningful immediate repetition tasks in the English as an additional language classroom: promoting fluency. BELT, 10(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/2178-3640.2019.2.32988

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The article reviews prior task-repetition research (Bygate 2001; Ahmadian and Tavakoli 2011; Lynch and Maclean 2000; Côelho 2017), reporting that "show better oral performance during a repeated task" and that repetition tends to reduce anxiety; no effect sizes are printed.

"Students, in general, show better oral performance during a repeated task, especially the less confident ones, as repetition tends to reduce anxiety (Côelho, 2017)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Academic Anxiety — outcome: instruction changes it
• Communication Skills — outcome: instruction changes it

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