ライアン デイウﾞィス   Rian DAVIS   ライアン・デイヴィス    所属   京都外国語大学  外国語学部 英米語学科    職種   講師
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2023/03
形態種別	論文
査読	査読あり
標題	4/3/2 or 2/3/4? The Impact of Task Design on Ratings of Oral Fluency with Japanese Undergraduate EFL Learners
執筆形態	共著
掲載誌名	Annual Research Report
掲載区分	国内
出版社・発行元	Kwansei Gakuin University
巻・号・頁	26,pp.13-32
総ページ数	19
担当範囲	Section 4, Conclusion, Editing
担当区分	最終著者,責任著者
著者・共著者	Davis, R., Delve, M., Eberly, L., Mertens, C., Stringer, T., & Wilkins, M.
概要	Oral fluency is an important language skill and goal for many learners in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. A commonly used fluency development task is 4/3/2. Learners create a four-minute speech on a topic, then pare it down to a three-, then two-minute speech. Manipulating the language to fit within the shorter timeframe is thought to improve fluency. This study explores the impact of different models of task design on ratings of EFL learners’ oral fluency. The participants were 70 mainly first-year students at a Japanese university. Participants made pretest and posttest treatment recordings of themselves. The treatment was for participants to do either the 4/3/2 or the 2/3/4 speaking fluency activity once a week for four weeks. The results of the study were that the treatment did show a significant increase in fluency but that there was not a significant difference between the 4/3/2 treatment and the 2/3/4 treatment.