Task-based instruction(TBI) and form-focused instruction(FFI) are believed to be different in the interaction they lead to.In TBI and FFI the occurrence of interaction process characteristics ( Display questions, form-based feedback, teacher-regulated turn taking, and explicit error correction) were analyzed among thirty eight learners being taught by two different methods of instruction. the aim was to find the effect of these two pedagogies on teacher-student interaction. The data was collected and analyzed by descriptive and referential statistics. It was found out that teacher-student...

This study investigates the impact of task structure and strategic planning on oral performance. Sixty four upper-intermediate learners of English were randomly selected and assigned to two groups: with pre-task planning and without pre-task planning. Each participant then was asked to narrate two stories (structured vs. unstructured) based on cartoon scripts. The structured task had a problem-solution structure in which the events could not be reordered without compromising the story, while the unstructured task lacked a problem-solution structure and its events could easily be rearranged...