Effectiveness of a Proposed Program Integrating MALL & Reciprocal Listening to Podcasts in Fostering EFL Faculty of Biotechnology Students’ HOTS, Vocabulary Acquisition and Speaking Fluency | ||||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||||
| Article 10, Volume 81, Issue 1, May 2023, Page 221-309 PDF (1.6 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2023.298832 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Ebtihal A. Helal | ||||
| Ph.D., TEFL Lecturer, Faculty of Languages, October Modern Sciences & Arts University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The aim of the current study was to develop Egyptian first year EFL Faculty of Biotechnology students’ higher order thinking skills (HOTS), vocabulary acquisition and speaking fluency through a proposed program integrating mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) and reciprocal listening to podcasts. The study followed the pretest/ posttest one experimental group design. The study group consisted of forty students; they were taught by the researcher throughout the fall semester of the academic year 2021- 2022 according to the proposed program. The study tools included a pre- /post- higher order thinking skills test, a pre-/post vocabulary acquisition test, a pre- post speaking fluency test, a rubric for measuring the study participants' HOTS and a speaking fluency rubric. Results indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the study group students' pre-tests and post-tests scores in favour of the post- tests scores. Therefore, it was concluded that the proposed program was effective in developing the study group students' HOTS, vocabulary and oral fluency. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| MALL; Podcasts; Reciprocal listening; HOTS; Vocabulary acquisition; Speaking fluency; Egyptian university students | ||||
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