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Using the Communicative Approach to Develop EFL Secondary School Students’ Speaking Skills.

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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 The aim of this study was to use the Communicative Approach to
develop EFL secondary school students' speaking skills. This
study employed a pre/post-one group design. An intact class (45
females) from the first-year secondary students were randomly
selected from one of the public secondary schools, “Omar Ibn
Al-Khatab Secondary school for girls", in Qalubiya Governorate
in the first term of the scholastic year 2018-2019. The tools used
in this study were a speaking skills checklist, a pre-post speaking
test to measure first-year secondary students' speaking skills, a
proposed program designed in the light of Communicative
Approach, and finally a success criteria used for students'
reflection on their learning. The oral performances in the
pre/post-test were analyzed to measure the speaking sub-skills
output. The collected data were statistically analysed using t-test.
The findings revealed that communicative language teaching had
a positive effect on the students' speaking skills. therefore, It is
recommended that teachers might find increasing the students'
talk time beneficial to help the students improve their speaking
skills by designing effective communicative activities.
 

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10.21608/ssl.2023.336630

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Speaking skills, oral performances, Communicative Approach, communicative language teaching, secondary school, Egypt

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El-Sayed Anwar

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Refaey

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25

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25

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45567

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2023-10-01

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2024-01-15

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2023-10-01

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218

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257

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2535-2148

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2682-3519

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Using the Communicative Approach to Develop EFL Secondary School Students’ Speaking Skills.

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