Paper Title
THE EFFECTS OF TASK INTERNAL AND TASK EXTERNAL READINESS ON THE EFL IRANIAN LEARNERS` WRITING PERFORMANCE IN TERM OF ACCURACY AND FLUENCY

Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of strategic planning and topic familiarity on L2 writing performance in term of accuracy and fluency. The participants were 80 intermediate learners studying English Language as a Foreign Language at three Universities. OPT administrated to make sure about the homogeneity of the learners regarding their language proficiency. Then, participants were randomly divided into four groups including a control group and three experimental groups. In control group, topic familiarity and strategic planning as internal and external task readiness were not administrated. In experimental group one, three familiar topics were given during three sessions without strategic planning condition. In the second group, three unfamiliar topics were given during three sessions in strategic planning condition. Students had 10 minutes for pre-task prior to the task performance by brainstorming. In experimental group three like group one, three familiar topics were used in the strategic planning condition. The results indicated that while strategic planning didn’t have significant effect on accuracy of Iranian EFL learners’ writing performance, topic familiarity had significant impact on accuracy and fluency of Iranian EFL learners’ writing performance. Keywords - Task-Internal–Task-External –Task-Readiness–Accuracy - Fluency