• Amirhossein Talebi

  Author

• Reza Biria

  Author

This paper sought to investigate whether replacement and insertion operations, as two
of the self-initiated repair operations, are employed by Iranian EFL learners in oral
reproduction of short stories. In addition, the present study examined learners’ priorities in
employing repair operations. To this end, two groups of thirty EFL students in two oral
reproduction courses at Khorasgan university(Iran) were required to reproduce two short
stories as their final exam. This study purposefully used two groups of learners in two different
academic years, sophomores and juniors, to inspect if the academic background has an impact
on the frequency of repair practices. To collect data, two short stories were selected from Oral
Reproduction of Stories by Abbas Ali Rezai, and participants were voice recorded. By
transcribing the data and using appropriate statistical measures, data were analyzed, and the
results revealed that both sophomore and junior Iranian EFL learners produced replacement
repair practices more frequently. Furthermore, the results indicated that students in the
sophomore group produced more repair practices as a whole. The findings presented here may
facilitate improvements in syllabus design and raise awareness in both teachers and students.

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