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Abstract

Abstract: The present study was conducted to compare the effects of discourse analysis through the ‎use of Catchphrase as a mobile game on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ speaking skill. ‎To conduct the research, a Solutions Placement Test was run among 90 EFL learners of ‎Shokouh English Institute, Rasht Branch, Guilan, Iran, and 40 intermediate language ‎learners who scored 47 and beyond were selected as the main participants of the study. ‎Then, they were divided into two equivalent groups of experimental and control through ‎simple random sampling method. Each group was then divided into two subgroups with an ‎equal number of male and female students, that is, the experimental group comprised 10 ‎male and 10 female students and the control group, too, consisted of 10 male and 10 female ‎participants. After that, the pretest of speaking was administered to the participants. Next, ‎the students in the experimental group received a mobile game instruction, while the control ‎group received the conventional method of teaching speaking. Finally, another speaking test ‎was administered to both groups at the end of the study to assess possible difference of ‎performance of these two groups. The collected data were then processed through statistical ‎analysis by the use of a two-way ANOVA through SPSS22 software. Statistical analysis of ‎the results provided evidence in support of the positive effects of modality of instruction ‎and participants’ gender on the development of speaking competence among Iranian ‎intermediate EFL learners. Although, the interaction between gender and instructional ‎modality did not produce a differential impact and the last hypothesis was rejected‎‎.