Exploring the effects of pre-task planning time on EFL learners’ narrative writing

Arezoo Ashoori Tootkaboni; Maryam Pakzadian

doi:10.5565/rev/jtl3.851

Explorar els efectes del temps de planificació sobre l’escriptura narrativa d’estudiants d’anglès

Autors/ores

Arezoo Ashoori Tootkaboni Allameh Tabataba'i University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8595-6922
Maryam Pakzadian Isfahan University o Medical Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3256-7912

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El present estudi es va dur a terme amb la finalitat de proporcionar informació sobre els efectes del temps de planificació prèvia a la tasca en l’escriptura narrativa d’aprenents d’anglès com a llengua estrangera iranians (precisió, fluïdesa i complexitat). Amb aquest objectiu, 70 estudiants de tres classes d’instituts d’idiomes privats a l’Iran van ser assignats a l’atzar a grups sense temps de planificació, amb 5 minuts de planificació o amb 10 minuts de planificació. L’anàlisi de les narratives escrites i els resultats de les anàlisis ANOVA unidireccionals van revelar que els grups que van tenir 5 o 10 minuts de planificació prèvia a la tasca van mostrar un progrés substancial en comparació amb el grup sense temps de planificació quant a la precisió, fluïdesa i complexitat de la seva producció. Els resultats obtinguts suggereixen que proporcionar oportunitats de planificació prèvia a la tasca resulta en millor complexitat, precisió i fluïdesa. Els resultats també tenen algunes implicacions per al professorat.

Paraules clau

Planificació prèvia a la tasca, Complexitat, Fluïdesa, Precisió, Narratives escrites

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Biografies de l'autor/a

Arezoo Ashoori Tootkaboni, Allameh Tabataba'i University

Dr. Arezoo Ashoori Tootkaboni received her PhD in applied linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University of Tehran, Iran in 2018. She been a lecturer, running Language Teaching Methodology, Language Testing, Reading Comprehension, Speaking and Listening and General English courses at state universities in Iran since 2011.

Maryam Pakzadian, Isfahan University o Medical Sciences

Dr. Maryam Pakzadian received received her PhD in applied linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University of Tehran, Iran in 2017. She has taught diferent graduate and undergraduate courses in Iranian universities since 2009. Her áreas of interest are Discourse Analysis and Interlanguage Pragmatics,EIL, identity and motivation.