The Effect of Stretched Texts on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners' Writing Fluency and Accuracy

The present paper investigated the effect of stretched texts on Iranian EFL learners' writing fluency and accuracy. Stretched text is a text displayed on a computer with references (hyprlinks) to other texts which the reader can immediately access, or where text can be revealed progressively at multiple levels of details (also called Hyper Text). To conduct the current study, sample research included ۶۰ male and female English language learners were selected from an English language institute in Poldokhtar city, Iran. They were given a teacher made proficiency writing as a pretest to select the participants at a homogeneity level. Then they were divided in two equal excremental and control groups. The experimental group received stretched text through the Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) medium while the text displayed on a computer with references (hyperlinks). The control group received conventional method of reading texts via reading their text book. Both groups received the same materials and time of instructions. After ۱۰ sessions of treatment, the post-test of writing fluency and accuracy was given to the learners. Data were analyzed through an independent sample t-test to find if there are salient differences between the findings of the two groups in their writing test. Results revealed that there was a significant differences in the performance of the experimental group in comparison to the control group. Results showed that the experimental group outperformed the control one in the post-test. In other words, the stretched text could provide EFL learners with enough exposure in writing tasks and enhance their writing fluency and accuracy.

کلیدواژه ها:

English Writing ، Stretched Text ، Writing Accuracy ، Writing Fluency