A Pilot Study on Task Frequency Effects of Input—Output Cycles on
EFL Learners’ Oral Proficiency
Abstraction Thisp apergive sareporto fthe findingso fap ilotstudyontaskfrequencye ffectso finput-outputcyc leso nEFLlearners’o ralp ro fic iency.Theresultss ho wedthatthee xp er imentalgro up madegreaterpro gre ss incomp lexityandaccuracythancontro lgroup s.Wemaycometotheconc lus io nthatc ircularinp ut-o utbene fits le arners mos t.Thestudymaygive so me ins ights fo rfore ignlanguageteac hersto gives eco ndlanguage learnersapp ropriatetasks inlisteningandspeakingclasses.
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1.Intro d uc t io n
Accordingto Ellis ’ op inio n learners ’ acquis itio no faseco ndlanguage L2dependso nthe ire xperienceo fthis languageando nwhattheycanmakeo fit
Ellis2009 .The learners’ experiencetaskfrequencyp laysaro le inlanguage learning
Harrinto nandDennis2002 .Thisstudyusedthemicro geneticanalys ismethodandexperimentalmethodto exp lorethetaskfrequencye ffectso finput-outputcyc le sonthes econdlanguage learners’o ralpro fic iencythro ughsto ryrete lling.Previo usstudie susuallyinve stigatedinp utfrequencyo ro utp utfrequencyseparate lybasedo ninp uthypothes is outputhypothe sisorusage-basedmodelwithexperimentalmethodsorcorpus-basedmethodsEllis2002Ellis&Co llins2009Ellis&Ferre ira-j unio r2009Ro hde2009Ro tt2007DuyckandVandere lis teta l.2008 Toth2006 .Thosestudie sprovedthatinputfrequencyandoutputfrequencyp layeddifferentro le sinthecreationo fthe learners’linguisticsystem.However tho sestudiesdidn’tre flectwhats eco ndlanguage learnersreallydo innaturallearnings ituation.Untilnow thereareonlyafewstudie sthathavedoneonthecombinedeffectso finputandoutput
e.g.Ro tt WilliamsandCamero n2002 Gu 2005 Erlam
2003 .Thisstudymaydeepeno urunderstandingo fthe learningproce ss inwhic hinputfrequenc yando utp ut freque nc ya reb othinte grativep arts ratherthanseparateo ne s.Itmayalsopro videso me evidence forinp uthypothe s is outputhypothe s is conne ctionism constructiongrammarand soc ioculturaltheory
SCT .The studymaygive some ins ights fo rfore ignlanguageteachersto givesecondlanguage learnersapprop riateta sks inlisteningand speakingc lass es.
2.Literature Re vie w
1Researchdoneoninputfrequencyandoutputfrequency
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