Socio-cultural Theory: the Study of the Effect of Group Interaction on Improving Iranian EFL learners’ Speaking Ability

Humanities

Literally speaking, speaking skill is at the heart of the language learning. For English as foreign language learners speaking English equals to learning it. Thus the current study was an attempt to suggest an effective strategy for efficient speaking for EFL learners. In doing so the researcher studied the effectiveness of the group interaction on sixty intermediate female learners at one the institutes of Tehran. Iran. The quasi-experimental study lasted for one educational semester. The findings indicated that group interaction enhances speaking in effective manner. The high scores of the experimental group might be due to the advantages of group interaction such as increasing students’ talking time, opportunity to mimic real time conversations, creating a more secure, pleasant, and positive classroom atmosphere.

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