Experimental group taught with oral communicative tasks significantly outperformed the control group on all post-task speaking components¶
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q2 i? After the 12-week OCT intervention, the experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group on fluency, grammar, idea/content, volume, pronunciation and total score at the .01 level. → Shantha and Mekala 2017
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Shantha and Mekala 2017¶
S. Shantha, S. Mekala. (2017). The Role of Oral Communicative Tasks (OCT) in Developing the Spoken Proficiency of Engineering Students. Advances in Language and Literary Studies 8(2). https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.2p.161
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Independent sample t-test comparing post-task CEFR-based scores of 38 experimental and 38 control students; the total-score t value printed in Table 4 is 8.463 at .01 significance, with the experimental mean 5.6316 versus control 2.8553. The article reports "a substantial difference between the control and experimental groups".
"The above table reveals that there is a substantial difference between the control and experimental groups in the post -task score in terms of Fluency, Grammatical Ability, Idea/content, volume, pronunciation and Total score at .01 leve ls. It is obvious that experimental group has shown considerable improvement over the control group."
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Learner Variables¶
- Communication Skills — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- 61% of the experimental class (23 of 38 students) showed substantial improvement in spoken proficiency — related
- Task performance varied significantly across the nine oral communicative tasks on all speaking components — related
- Immediate task repetition benefits oral performance, including fluency, self-correction and reduced anxiety — related
- Experimental group outperformed control group on oral presentation of text — related
- The program significantly improved linguistic life skills (oral interpersonal communication) versus control — related
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