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The Relationship between Working Memory Capacity and L2 Oral Performance under Task-Based Careful Online Planning Condition
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Ahmadian, Mohammad Javad – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
The study reported in this article aimed to investigate the way working memory capacity (WMC) interacts with careful online planning--a task-based implementation variable--to affect second language (L2) speech production. This issue is important to teachers, because it delves into one of the possible task-based implementation variables and thus…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Languages, Oral Language, Speech
The Effects of Guided Careful Online Planning on Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Intermediate EFL Learners' Oral Production: The Case of English Articles
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Ahmadian, Mohammad Javad – Language Teaching Research, 2012
The purpose of the study reported in this article was twofold: First, to see whether guided careful online planning assists intermediate learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in accurate oral production of English articles ("an/a" and "the"); and, second, to see whether guided careful online planning has any effects…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages)