Among a vast array of techniques that help enhance L2 oral fluency of students is the use of speaking templates, also frequently referred to as handy language, sentence stems or starter chunks. Much as this technique has been quite commonly practiced, its relevance and effectiveness take more than experience and observation to determine. This project, as a result, aimed to investigate the impact of using templates on improving oral fluency. To fulfil this aim, a quasi-experiment was designed with a control group (N=24) and an experimental group (N=24); they both took a pre-test and a post-test but only the experimental group received training with speaking templates in a 6-week period. The data collected was processed to garner numerical statistics of Speech Rate, Mean Length of Runs and Average Length of Pauses, the three measures of oral fluency. The test scores of the two group were then compared by t-tests and one-way ANOVA tests on SPSS. A questionnaire was administered afterwards to elicit students' opinions on the use of this fluency training method. The findings revealed that not all students from the experimental group benefited from speaking templates and that generally speaking, students welcomed the use of handy language and had favorable experience experimenting with the technique.
Among a vast array of techniques that help enhance L2 oral fluency of students is the use of speaking templates, also frequently referred to as handy language, sentence stems or starter chunks. Much as this technique has been quite commonly practiced, its relevance and effectiveness take more than experience and observation to determine. This project, as a result, aimed to investigate the impact of using templates on improving oral fluency. To fulfil this aim, a quasi-experiment was designed with a control group (N=24) and an experimental group (N=24); they both took a pre-test and a post-test but only the experimental group received training with speaking templates in a 6-week period. The data collected was processed to garner numerical statistics of Speech Rate, Mean Length of Runs and Average Length of Pauses, the three measures of oral fluency. The test scores of the two group were then compared by t-tests and one-way ANOVA tests on SPSS. A questionnaire was administered afterwards to elicit students' opinions on the use of this fluency training method. The findings revealed that not all students from the experimental group benefited from speaking templates and that generally speaking, students welcomed the use of handy language and had favorable experience experimenting with the technique.
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