Investigating the Effects of Story Retelling Technique as a Closed Task vs. Story-Completion as an Open Task on EFL Learners’ Speaking
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Shima Ghiabi
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- Keywords:
- Story Retelling Technique, Closed Task, Story Completion, Open Task
- Abstract
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This paper discusses a learning medium, especially for English language teaching to
EFL students through retelling stories and story completion tasks. By using these methods, they
can be one of the exciting activities for bringing students interested in learning English with
confident. In these activities, students are able to convey their ideas and all students obtain the
same opportunities to speak at every meeting. The activities are oral activities that make student
relax, happy and fun. These techniques are expected to be useful for English teachers, so that
they will enrich the teaching of speaking techniques. They are also for the students are expected
to be able to improve English language skills, motivation and self-confident, and adoring the
English language in school and outside of school. The study first examines the story retelling
technique; then it discusses the story completion technique. The discussion ends with a
conclusion in which the similarities and differences of two methods are mentioned. - Downloads
- Published
- 2014-07-11
- Issue
- Vol. 3 No. 3 (2014)
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- Articles