The Effects of Warm-Up Tasks on the Iranian EFL Students' Writing Ability

Autor/inn/en	Estalkhbijari, Zahra Pakdel; Khodareza, Mohammadreza
Titel	The Effects of Warm-Up Tasks on the Iranian EFL Students' Writing Ability
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 5 (2012) 2, S.190-203 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Writing Ability; Writing Exercises; English (Second Language); Undergraduate Students; Task Analysis; Class Activities; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Pretests Posttests; Writing Tests; Paragraph Composition; Scores; Statistical Analysis; Writing Improvement; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schreibkompetenz; Schreibübung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Aufgabenanalyse; Writing test; Schreibtest; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	This study aims to investigate the effects of warm up tasks as classroom activities on foreign language written production. For showing these effects, sixty out of one hundred forty Iranian sophomore EFL students from the Islamic Azad University of Lahijan branch, Iran were selected after following the Oxford Placement Test (OPT). Then, they were randomly divided into two groups; the experimental group who received the treatments on warm up tasks, and the control group who received a placebo. Both groups had to write two paragraphs of about 150 words that were considered as their pretests and posttests. The paragraphs were corrected by three experienced raters. Their scores analyzed through SPSS by applying Independent t-test, and Paired sample t-test. The findings revealed that participants in the experimental group, who had received the treatments on warm up tasks, significantly enhanced better performance in a writing test. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01