An Investigation of the Effectiveness of Dialogue Shadowing Technique (DST) on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners Conversation

The aim of the current study was to investigate whether L2 dialogueshadowing practice would have an effect on Iranian intermediate EFLlearners’ conversation ability. For this purpose, 30 Iranian intermediate EFLlearners at Padideh language center participated in the experiment of thestudy. The participants were divided into two groups of 15 who wereassigned to the experimental and control group of the study randomly. Apretest of conversation ability was administered to both groups, theexperimental group received 10 sessions of teaching L2 conversation as wellas dialogue shadowing technique (DST) while the control group received aplacebo, in other words, teaching L2 conversation via existing method. Afterthe treatment, the same test was administered as posttest to both groups ofstudy. The data obtained from the tests in this study were analyzed viaindependent sample T-test between performance of the groups, and thepaired-sample T-test was used between the pretest and posttest of each groupto show the progress. The results revealed that Iranian EFL learners in theexperimental group performed better and received higher score inconversation test after 10 sessions of treatment.

Keywords:

dialogue , shadowing , EFL learners , conversation , speaking