Task-Prompted Variability of Narrative Retellings

Task-Prompted Variability of Narrative Retellings

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The aim of this study was to investigate the differential effects of time and length constraints on complexity, accuracy, lexis, and fluency (CALF) of EFL learners' narrative retellings. To that end, participants at intermediate proficiency level were selected through a convenient sampling procedure. They had to retell the narrative first with time constraint and then reproduce it with length constraint. Based on Tavakoli (2018), four indices (ratio of subordination, weighted clause ratio, diversity, and speech rate representing CALF respectively) were chosen out of 12 ones. A repeated-measure...