Fluency-focused activities and the oral production

Abstract

One of the most important language skills for communication is the speaking skill, that is the reason why this research work aimed to analyze how fluency-focused activities improve oral production at La Salle High School. This study used 29 students as experimental group, which 11 were men and 18 were women, students from 2nd BGU. This research had a pre-experimental design and an exploratory, bibliographic, and field research modality. For this research study, 10 sessions were necessary, the first two interventions to take the pre-test were used, which was a standardized Cambridge exam A2 Flyers, focused on speaking skill. The pre-test showed a general average of 4.04 out of 10 which was the expected average. Then the fluency-focused activities were applied during 6 interventions. Finally, the last 2 interventions to take the students the post-test were used which was the same as the one taken at the beginning. The results showed that there was an improvement because the students obtained a general average of 5.66 out of 10, which shows that there was an advance of 1.62 between both samples, which allowed validating the alternative hypothesis, it means that, fluency-focused activities promote the oral production of the 2nd BGU students at La Salle High School.