Effects of Speaking strategies on the students fluency: Study of advanced students in an institute

Strategies are always important and effective in success in any work. So, to consider the outcome of any activity and its quality, investigation of the strategies used, is valuable. Thus, in language learning one of the fundamental questions is whether the speaking strategies used by the students are appropriate and effective on their speaking fluency or not. A study was undertaken with 15 advanced level students in Jahad-e- Farhangi Institute in Karaj. The students were chosen according to a proficiency test which was a part of the TOEFL test in the previous years. Then a questionnaire with Likert items ranged from 1 (0%) to 5 (100%), pilot tested before being used with the real participants, was given to them to be responded. After that all of them were interviewed in semistructural way individually to evaluate their fluency. The findings of correlation coefficient based on SPSS, demonstrated that the speaking strategies the advanced students of the mentioned institute use for increasing their ability in speaking fluency are almost appropriate for their aim, but not sufficient.