EFL Young Learners’ Perceptions About the Benefits and Challenges of Doing Individual Audio Recording Tasks in Their Oral Fluency

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the EFL young learners’ perceptions about the benefits of individual audio recording tasks in their oral fluency and find out their challenges on how to do individual audio recording tasks. Twenty young learners coming from an English center in Vinh Long province took part in the research. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected by using a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The findings implicate that young learners highly perceived the benefits of doing individual audio recording tasks in improving their oral fluency, attitude and motivation. However, they encountered some challenges while doing individual audio recording tasks as regards linguistic problems and personal background.

Keywords: Audio recording tasks, oral fluency, benefits and challenges of audio recording tasks

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-30-07

Publication date:October 31^st 2022