The impact of MI-Based Activities in Enhancing Secondary School EFL Students’ Speaking Skill. | ||||
| Journal of Research in Curriculum Instruction and Educational Technology | ||||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 3, July 2015, Page 11-37 PDF (1.74 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jrciet.2015.24545 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Magda Atta Ahmed Soltan1; Ali Abdel Samea Qoura2 | ||||
| 1Faculty of Education , Taif University , KSA | ||||
| 2Faculty of Education , Mansoura University , Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| T he present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of MI- based activities in developing the speaking skill of a sample of first year secondary students . The quasi- experimental design was used for conducting this research .A group of sixty 1st year secondary students were randomly selected from one of Cairo governmental secondary schools, namely El – Salam Secondary School for Girls, in the school year 2014-2015 (30 students in the experimental group and 30 students in the control group) . The instruments of the study were : 1) A speaking skills list ; 2)A speaking pre-posttest and 3) AMI – Inventory and 4) A speaking performance scoring rubric. Reliability and validity of the instruments were verified. The experiment lasted for three months in the second semester of the academic year 2014/2015 .Results of the study indicated that the MI- based activities proved to be effective in developing the target speaking skills , namely;interacting and managing conversation effectively, following grammatical rules accurately ,using relevant, adequate and appropriate range of words and word collocations, speaking fluently and demonstrating intelligible pronunciation . Based on the findings, a set of recommendations and suggestions for further research were highlighted. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| MI – based activities; Speaking skills | ||||
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