Impact of Task Repetition on Comprehension, Recall, and Retention of Tense Accuracy of Different Levels of Proficiency: Adults and Children

The present study investigated the effect of task repetition as a type of task planning on the comprehension, recall and retention of the target English tenses among the EFL learners. In addition, this study aimed at exploring the defining roles of learners' age and proficiency level with regard to the results of task repetition. To do this, two age groups of female participants (37 adult learners and 38 young learners) which were selected according to purposive sampling procedure took part in this study. The instruments which were employed included proficiency test and grammar test. A researcher made test of grammar which was piloted and whose reliability was confirmed via KR-21 (.81), used as the pretest and posttest of the study. Finally, the data were analyzed using SPSS software and interpreted by the researcher. The obtained results revealed that the treatment adopted in this study could significantly help the learners in the young group to raise their mastery over using the English tenses. This was statistically demonstrated to be true regarding the scores obtained by the learners on the posttest. In the same line, learners' proficiency level was also found to be a determining factor regarding the effectiveness of the method. The results of the study mostly demonstrate that language learning is better achieved when new interesting topics are brought into students’ class to be taught with their class materials.