Research Seminar homework

1. By Nel de Jong, Charles A. Perfetti

2.  This is an experimental research. It follows a procedure in
which students have to repeat their speeches. Finally, the
study concludes that repetition helped to improve fluency.
 It has a formal L2 classroom design. The authors borrowed
students from a classroom that wasn’t theirs.
 The purpose of the research is to conclude whether repetition
helps the students to improve their fluency or not.
 The main research question inquires which is the role of
repetition in matter of fluency in students.
 The subjects of the study were 24 students that recorded
three speeches in three sessions. Some students talked about
the same subject and others about three different subjects.

3.  The authors’ choice to discover whether the
repetition influences the fluency in students
of a second language was the best option
because they can now support their
hypothesis. I believe they were right because
the research did not need any theory to be
maintained but an experiment in a real
classroom to know whether repetition helps
to develop fluency or not.