标题：Effects of the Vaughan Method in Comparison with the Audiolingual Method and the Communicative Language Teaching on Iranian Advanced EFL Learners’ Speaking Skill
摘要：The present study intended to examine the effectiveness of the Vaughan method
for the development of EFL learners’ speaking skill. The Vaughan method was
compared with two other methods, namely the Audiolingual method and
communicative language teaching with regard to the development of learners’
speaking skill. In a quasi-experimental design, three intact classes of 90 advanced
Iranian EFL learners were given a speaking pretest. Subsequently, the learners
were taught with these three methods, and the learners were administered a
speaking posttest. A posthoc Scheffe test showed that the learners in the Vaughan
class had performed significantly higher in comparison to the learners in the
Audiolingual class, but there was no significant difference between the Vaughan
method and the communicative language teaching class in terms of developing the
learners’ speaking skill. Additionally, a questionnaire was administered to the
Vaughan class to obtain learners’ attitudes towards the effectiveness of this method
for the development of their speaking skill. Finally, the learners in the Vaughan
class were interviewed. The results of both the questionnaire and the interview
indicated that the learners believed that explicit error correction, as a major tenet
of the Vaughan method, had a significant influence on their speaking skill.
