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Publication Date: 2022-May
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Massed Task Repetition Is a Double-Edged Sword for Fluency Development: An EFL Classroom Study
Suzuki, Yuichi; Hanzawa, Keiko
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, v44 n2 p536-561 May 2022
To examine the effects of task repetition with different schedules, English-as-a-foreign-language classroom learners performed the same oral narrative task six times under three different schedules. They narrated the same six-frame cartoon story (a) six times consecutively in one class (massed practice), (b) three times at the beginning and at the end of a class (short-spaced practice), and (c) three times as a part of two classes 1 week apart (long-spaced practice). The results yielded by an immediate posttest using a novel cartoon showed that massed practice reduced breakdown fluency (mid-clause and clause-final pauses) the most. However, the participants in the massed-practice group showed degraded speed (slower articulation rate) and repair fluency (more verbatim repetition). The effects of repetition schedule seem limited on a 1-week delayed posttest involving a novel cartoon. Yet, when participants narrated the same practiced cartoon 1 week later, massed practice also resulted in more verbatim repetition.
Descriptors: Repetition, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Oral Language, Cartoons, Intervals, Language Fluency, Articulation (Speech)
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