Investigating Group Planning in Preparation for Oral Presentations in an EFL Class in Vietnam.

Research on pre-task planning has shown that planning has beneficial effects on learners' subsequent language output. However, to date most of this research has focused on solitary rather than group planning. Furthermore, very few studies have investigated what actually happens during the planning t...

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Publicado en:RELC Journal Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 104 - 125
Autores principales: Truong Anh Tuan, Neomy, Storch
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications, Ltd. Apr2007
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        Group work in education
        Language ability testing
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