The Impact of Task Planning on Iranian EFL Learners’ Writings

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether planning in writing tasks affects the fluency of written narrations or not. To do so, the researchers selected ninety EFL full time students from a population of one hundred and twenty through giving them SAT practice test. They were divided into three groups of thirty. These groups were assigned the same written task which was a narration based on six-picture series. It was inferred from the obtained results that the strategic group had outperformed the other groups as far as the fluency of narrations was concerned.