Abstract
This study aims to investigate the effects of warm up tasks as classroom activities on foreign language written production. For showing these effects, sixty out of one hundred forty Iranian sophomore EFL students from the Islamic Azad University of Lahijan branch, Iran were selected after following the Oxford Placement Test (OPT). Then, they were randomly divided into two groups; the experimental group who received the treatments on warm up tasks, and the control group who received a placebo. Both groups had to write two paragraphs of about 150 words that were considered as their pretests and posttests. The paragraphs were corrected by three experienced raters. Their scores analyzed through SPSS by applying Independent t-test, and Paired sample t-test. The findings revealed that participants in the experimental group, who had received the treatments on warm up tasks, significantly enhanced better performance in a writing test.
Highlights
In terms of skills, producing a coherent, fluent, extended piece of writing is probably the most difficult thing there is to do in languages
The findings revealed that participants in the experimental group, who had received the treatments on warm up tasks, significantly enhanced better performance in a writing test
As you can see in table 5, there is a progress from the mean scores of the pretest to the posttest in the experimental group
Summary
In terms of skills, producing a coherent, fluent, extended piece of writing is probably the most difficult thing there is to do in languages. It is something most native speakers never master. Rivers (1981) believes that writing in the language becomes more complicated when it involves writing meaningful segments of language which might be used in specific circumstances. Nanun (1989: 36) believes that "at the sentences level these include control of content, format, sentence structure, vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and letter formation. The writer must be able to structure and integrate information into cohesive and coherent paragraphs and texts"
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