Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The effects of guided careful online planning


Ahmadian, M. J. (2012). The effects of guided careful online planning on complexity, accuracy and fluency in intermediate EFL learners’ oral production: The case of English articles. Language Teaching Research, 16
(1) 129–149. doi: 10.1177/1362168811425433



This is a big article to read. From the theoretical frame to the methodology, from the research design to the data analysis, this article is a serious report of a carefully designed experiment which proved that the variable of guided careful online planning had had positive effects upon the accurate production of English articles as well as the global complexity of language in learners’ speech.

Thought what this article reported is the positive function of the guided careful online planning, I saw the significance, from the oral side, of the process of the output procedure of the second language acquisition.

But to be honest, the guidance here introduced is not very special, as I expected.

What’s more, this article did a thorough and thoughtful literature review.

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