A descriptive statistical analysis was carried out in an attempt to
determine how task-based and topic-based group work activities influenced
two aspects of student interaction in speaking classes: length and type of turns
and collaboration markers.
The results
of this analysis, therefore, indicate that, during task-based activities, learners
produced speech more similar to that of native speakers in real-life situations
than they did during topic-based activities, which is in keeping with the main
tenets of communicative language teaching