Abstract
The current study aims at investigating the impact of Audio/Voice conferencing, as a new approach to teaching speaking, on the speaking performance and/or speaking band score of IELTS candidates. Experimental group subjects participated in an audio conferencing class while those of the control group enjoyed attending in a traditional IELTS speaking class. At the end of the study, all subjects participated in an IELTS Examination held on November 2011 in Tehran, Iran. To compare the group means for the study, an independent t-test analysis was employed. The difference between experimental and control group was considered to be statistically significant (P < 0.01). That is the candidates in experimental group have outperformed the ones in control group in IELTS speaking scores.
Highlights
Helping students to become skillful in a foreign language is the key aim of language teachers
Proficiency, defined as the level of competence attained by instruction (Omaggio Hadley, 2001), in all the skills of a language is of central significance in the field of second language acquisition
It is vital for language educators following this approach to supply learners with as many opportunities as feasible to communicate in the target language, in both written and oral forms
Summary
Helping students to become skillful in a foreign language is the key aim of language teachers. A two-way phone conferencing facility ensures that the teachers are able to pursue the improvement of their students and can provide instant feedback to improve their learning process This is one of the most important reasons for the growing use of audio conferencing in distant language courses. The instructor has participated in the IELTS Examination in 04/09/2009 and obtained the overall score of 8 in academic module with the speaking band score of 8 He could be considered as a good choice for handling the virtual IELTS Speaking class via audio conferencing carried out in the study. The results for the descriptive analysis of the pretests for experimental and control groups are shown in table 1
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