Assessing L2 Task Performance: Understanding Effects of Task Design

Autor/in	Tavakoli, Parvaneh
Titel	Assessing L2 Task Performance: Understanding Effects of Task Design
Quelle	In: System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 37 (2009) 3, S.482-495 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0346-251X
DOI	10.1016/j.system.2009.02.013
Schlagwörter	Data Analysis; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Syntax; Evaluation; Foreign Countries; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Auswertung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Evaluierung; Ausland
Abstract	The overarching aim of the research reported here was to investigate the effects of task structure and storyline complexity of oral narrative tasks on second language task performance. Participants were 60 Iranian language learners of English who performed six narrative tasks of varying degree of structure and storyline complexity in an assessment setting. A number of analytic detailed measures were employed to examine whether there were any differences in the participants' performances elicited by the different tasks in terms of their accuracy, fluency, syntactic complexity and lexical diversity. Results of the data analysis showed that performance in the more structured tasks was more accurate and to a great extent more fluent than that in the less structured tasks. The results further revealed that syntactic complexity of L2 performance was related to the storyline complexity, i.e. more syntactic complexity was associated with narratives that had both foreground and background storylines. These findings strongly suggest that there is some unsystematic variance in the participants' performance triggered by the different aspects of task design. (Contains 4 figures and 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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