Sima Khezrlou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sima Khezrlou is involved.
2025 Effects of task repetition with grammatizing on oral task performance and knowledge development Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 48:2, pp. 350–381 | Article
This study compared the effects of task repetition only (TR), task repetition with grammatizing (TR+GR), and grammatization with no task repetition (GR) on 94 EFL learners’ oral task performances. Participants’ productions were measured both in terms of complexity, accuracy, and fluency as well… read more
2025 Trainee EFL teachers’ development and implementation of tasks in young learner classrooms ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 176:2, pp. 219–243 | Article
This study investigated the impact of educating Austrian EFL teachers-in-training about the concept of task, on the premise that this understanding would be a significant prerequisite for them to effectively implement TBLT in their young learner classrooms. Participants were trainee teachers… read more
2025 Pre-task planning in CLIL classrooms: A study of language choice and type of planning guidance in spoken geography tasks Language Teaching for Young Learners 8:1, pp. 59–93 | Article
This study examined the effects of guided and unguided pre-task planning on the complexity, accuracy, lexis, and fluency (CALF) in L2 oral production, as well as the quality of task outcomes in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classrooms. Additionally, the study compared the… read more
2021 Effects of task repetition with written corrective feedback on the knowledge and written accuracy of learners with different prior knowledge of the structure Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 34:2, pp. 464–493 | Article
Previous task repetition studies have largely overlooked the second language learners’ development of linguistic knowledge as well as written accuracy. Furthermore, sufficient attention has not been paid to the role of written corrective feedback (WCF) in task repetition to reinforce attention… read more
2020 The role of task repetition with direct written corrective feedback in L2 writing complexity, accuracy and fluency Journal of Second Language Studies 3:1, pp. 31–54 | Article
This study explored whether the effects of task repetition in drawing learners’ attention to linguistic form could be reinforced through the provision of two types of unfocused direct written corrective feedback. Fifty-seven learners formed three conditions: (1) task repetition with no feedback… read more