چکیده:
One of the major issues for many teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL)
is finding a way of helping foreign language learners to produce acute and fluent
utterances. According to the research finding the oral drill has a significant effect
on producing accurate and fluent speech in second language instruction. Experts
believe that English learners’ oral utterances enable them to gain more profound
recognition of English sentence structure, and it will facilitate subsequent
acquisitions. This study set out to investigate the effect of educational productionoriented
program on increasing grammatical accuracy and task- based fluency in
speech. The statistical population of the study was fifty Iranian sophomore students
at Islamic Azad University of Tabriz. They were randomly assigned to
experimental and control groups. Initial homogeneity of the groups was verified
using a general proficiency test and an oral pre-test. Both groups received
instruction for six sessions and were taught how to use different fluency and
accuracy strategies to produce more fluent and accurate speech, the experimental
group, however, was required to produce oral utterances based on a picture strip at
the end of each session. The results showed that there was a significant difference
between the experimental and control group. The experimental group produced
more accurate and fluent speech utterances than the control group on the post-test.
The findings have significant pedagogical implications for (EFL) learners in highly
limited contexts.