THE IMPACT OF TEACHERʹʹS DISCOURSE ON IRANIAN INTERMEDIATE EFL LEARNERSʹʹ SPEAKING SKILL

This study aimed at analyzing the role of teacher’s discourse in the development of learners’ speaking skill. in this research 32 intermediate English Foreign Language learners participated and they were divided in two groups- control and experimental. For the pretest of the study, the speaking section of Preliminary English Test was employed in both groups. After the pretest, the experimental group was exposed to teacherʹs discourse (written and spoken) over a period of 6 weeks. The learners in the experimental group were taught how to use teacherʹs discourse consciously and subconsciously to improve speaking skill (treatment). During that time, the teacher used special vocabularies and structures while teaching the book and in the conversation part of the class. The teacher observed learnersʹ speaking with respect to general speaking and the five factors of speaking like fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammatical accuracy, and interactional strategies. In the second administration of the speaking section of PET as posttest to the two groups, it was revealed that the teacherʹs discourse has a significant impact on the learners’ speaking skill.