Fifteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

The focus of the present study was on teaching speaking skills by employing guided and free oral presentations. Firstly, it investigated whether guided oral presentation and free oral presentation can develop Iranian EFL learners’ speaking skills. Secondly, it checked if there was any significant difference between free and guided oral presentations in learning speaking skills among pre-intermediate EFL learners. To this end, 60 homogenous female participants were selected from the Andisheh English language institute, Ahvaz, Iran. Then, they were non-randomly divided into two experimental (i.e., guided oral presentation and free oral presentation), each included 30 participants. Then, a researcher-made pre-test of speaking was given to the participants of both groups. The researcher taught the guided oral group through using guided oral presentation while the participants of the free oral group were taught by employing free oral presentation. The process took 12 sessions of 45 minutes each under the guidance of the supervisor. At the end of the treatment, a researcher-made post-test was administered to find out the impact on the students’ speaking enhancement. The results of the Paired and Independent Samples t-test showed that the guided oral group outperformed the free group on the post-test. Finally, implications of the study were explained and recommendations proposed that EFL teachers should use guided oral presentation in developing speaking skills among pre-intermediate language learners.