Open AccessTask complexity and its Effects on Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency of EFL Learners’ Written Production
Author(s) -
Niloofar Arjmand
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
global journal of foreign language teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2301-2595
DOI - 10.18844/gjflt.v6i3.1367
Subject(s) - fluency , task (project management) , session (web analytics) , narrative , psychology , variation (astronomy) , cognitive psychology , linguistics , computer science , mathematics education , philosophy , economics , physics , management , world wide web , astrophysics
The present study investigated the effects of task complexity on complexity, accuracy, and fluency of learners’ written narrative task production. 30 intermediate Iranian English Language students produced narratives based on two picture stories at two separate sessions. During the first session, they looked at the pictures and performed here-and-now (HN) task by writing their narratives in present tense. And at the second session, they performed there-and-then (TT) task by writing their narratives in past tense, too. The results of statistical analyses showed that tense variation had significant effects on the complexity of learners, but it did not have any significant effects on the accuracy and fluency of EFL learners’. Keywords: task-based language teaching, task complexity, accuracy, fluency, complexity.