The Effects of Styles and Strategies Based Instruction Model (SSBI) on Iranian EFL Learners’ Speaking Performance

The present study firstly was an attempt to investigate the effects of a method of communication strategy training Strategies-Based Instruction (SSBI) on Iranian EFL learners’ speaking performance. To do the study, a quasi-experimental study was designed in which 60 pre-intermediate Iranian EFL male and female learners who had been selected out of 72 learners based on the result of a proficiency test (KET) participated. The students who did not meet the criterion also participated in the study but their scores were not included in the related analyses. The participants were divided into two experimental groups and were instructed through SBBI. As the gender was a definite variable in this study, the researcher homogenized female and male in both groups. The study participants went through the process of pretesting, intervention, and post-testing. Then the collected data were analyzed and measures of two-way analysis of variances (two-way ANOVA) and multivariate analysis of variances (MANOVA) were run to probe the null hypotheses of the study. The results of data analysis firstly revealed that the Styles and Strategies-Based Instruction (SSBI) group significantly performed on the posttest of speaking. Also, the results indicated that there was not any significant difference between the male and female groups’ means on the posttest of speaking test. In fact, there was not any significant interaction between types of gender.

Keywords:

Communication Strategy , Speaking Performance , SSBI