THE EFFECT OF CLUSTER BASED STRATEGY INSTRUCTION ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ SPEAKING ABILITY
Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
The present study investigated the effect of cluster based strategy instruction as some strategies (DVD, pictures, games and video projects) on Iranian EFL learners’ speaking ability. This study tried to answer whether using cluster based strategy instruction might enhance higher speaking skills in Iranian EFL learners at intermediate level. To answer the question, 60 intermediate language learners in Poursayed language Institute in Roudsar were randomly selected via administering an OPT to 100 languge learners. Then they were divided into two groups of 30 and were randomly assigned to an experimental and control group. A pre-test ofspeaking including 10 questions was administered to both groups, and the participants were asked to answer them orally. Then the experimental group received a treatment of four strategies of speaking skill while the control group received a treatment of existting method. After ten sessions of the treatment, a post-test of speaking was administered to both groups. The data was analysed through calculating an independent sample t-test and a pearson correlationtest. The results indicated that the means of the two groups were significantly different.
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Fakhri Mohammadi Gaskari, Houshang Azari
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