DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2015.v03i04.016

Pages: 927-933

To examine the effect of using video recording features of mobile phones on Iranian EFL learners’ fluency, 40 Iranian EFL female elementary learners were chosen by means of administering a placement test. Then, they were randomly divided into two equal groups of experimental and control groups. In order to have their speech samples, they were all interviewed both before and after the treatment. While participants of both groups attended their regular traditional elementary classes, the participants of the experimental group used their cell phones to make 15 videos of themselves talking on given topics every five days as the study treatment. Then, the participants’ fluency was assessed through calculating their speech rate. The results of ANCOVA (p<.05) demonstrated that the experimental group outperformed the control group in terms of speech rate. Therefore, using video-recording features of mobile phones can lead to improved rate of speech of Iranian EFL learners.