scholarly journals The impact of MI-Based Activities in Enhancing Secondary School EFL Students’ Speaking Skill.

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-37
Author(s):  
Magda Soltan ◽  
Ali Qoura
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The Impact of Using Asking for Clarification and Circumlocution Speaking Strategies on Enhancing the Speaking Skill of EFL Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Niveen Baradeyah ◽  
Mohammed Farrah
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Experimental Group

<p><em>This study mainly aimed at investigating the impact of teaching the asking for clarification and circumlocution speaking strategies on enhancing students’ speaking ability. In addition, it investigated the impact of teaching asking for clarification and circumlocution speaking strategies on students’ use of other speaking strategies. Finally, it aimed at finding the correlation between language proficiency and students’ use of the taught speaking strategies. Sixty-two 10<sub>th</sub> graders at Noba Secondary School for Girls, a government high school, Palestine, participated in the study. Their native language is Arabic. They were divided into an experimental group comprised of thirty-one students and a control group consisted of thirty-one students. The experimental group had training on using two speaking strategies, namely asking for clarification and circumlocution which lasted over a semester. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data which were collected through pre and post questionnaires and pre and post tests showed that the use of asking for clarification strategy enhanced students’ speaking skill. However, students’ speaking skill was not enhanced through the use of circumlocution strategy. In addition, there were no significant differences between the experimental and control group in their use of different speaking strategies after teaching asking for clarification and circumlocution speaking strategies. However, message reduction and alteration strategies and social-affective strategies were reported to be the most significantly used strategies by the experimental group. Furthermore, the results showed that there was a strong correlation between learners’ proficiency level and their strategy use. Finally, </em><em>the study came with a number of recommendations.</em></p>

scholarly journals The Effect of Extra-curricular Activities on the Development of Saudi Secondary-School EFL Students' Oral Performance in Al-Namas Province as perceived by EFL Teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalid Ahmad Hindi Al-Omri   ,  Mamdouh Ali Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
School Management ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Oral Performance ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The Impact

The study purpose was to determine the impact of extra-curricular activities on the improvement of EFL students' oral performance in Saudi secondary-schools, Al-Namas Province as perceived by EFL Teachers. In addition, identify the significant relationship at level (α ≤ 0.05) between the effect of extra-curricular activities adapted in Saudi secondary schools, and the oral performance of the students by the EFL teachers perspective. The study depended on a qualitative approach. The study population was EFL teachers working at secondary-school in Al-Namas Province, Saudi Arabia, and the researcher selected a random sample with size (50) of EFL teachers from secondary-schools. Research results was as follow:  there is a positive correlation between the effect of extra-curricular activities adapted in Saudi secondary schools, and the oral performance of the students from the perspective of EFL teachers; there is no statistically significant differences in the correspondent of the sample at level (α = 0.05) in the effect of extra-curricular activities on the development of Saudi secondary-school ELF students' oral performance due to Qualification; Extra-curricular activities help students increase their vocabulary. the study provided many recommendations: school management must organize programme's for extra-curricular activities inside school; school management be supposed to use high academic performance condition for allowing students to participate in extra-curricular activities; and students should be free to decide which curricular activities to participate in.

scholarly journals Burundian Teachers’ Conceptualisations of Philosophy-Based Language Teaching Approach in Developing EFL Students’ Speaking Skill

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Juvénal Ntakarutimana ◽  
Ali Mohammad Fazilatfar
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

This study investigated the EFL teachers’ conceptualisations of the use of PBLT in EFL instruction. Thirteen EFL teachers selected from two higher education institutions in Burundi participated in the inquiry. The inquiry set out to assess participants’ beliefs and attitudes towards three constructs, namely the use of philosophical questions in the EFL classroom, the use of the EFL classroom as a community of inquiry, and the impact of PBLT in developing the EFL students’ speaking skill. A background information questionnaire, a Likert scale questionnaire, and an online structured interview were used to collect data from participants. The findings revealed participants’ positive views and attitudes towards the role of PBLT in EFL instruction. The use of philosophical questions in the EFL classroom as well as the use of the EFL classroom as a community of inquiry in enhancing EFL students’ productive and receptive skills was found to be highly favoured among participants. Furthermore, it was found that participants believe in the high potential of PBLT in developing the five components of speaking, namely fluency, accuracy, range, coherence, and content. Participants, however, showed a relatively diminished trust in PBLT when it comes to its role in enhancing the accuracy component, and this diminished trust may be attributed to the fact that accuracy relates much more to the linguistic form while PBLT puts greater focus on meaning.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Role Play Techniques in Teaching Speaking for EFL College Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 863 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhea Mizhir Krebt
Keyword(s):  
Role Play ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Control Group ◽  
College Level ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Efl College Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Experimental Group

The paper investigates the impact of role-playing as a classroom technique on Iraqi EFL students’ speaking skill on Iraqi EFL students at the college level. The students are 40 college language students in University of Baghdad, College of Education Ibn-Rushd randomly chosen. Then, they were divided into two groups, experimental and control groups. Thirty questions were applied to both groups as a pre-test of speaking and the students asked to answer them orally. The experimental group was taught speaking skill of the targeted role-play technique while the control group was taught in traditional method. After 20 lessons of the teaching, the post-test of speaking was conducted in which the students in both groups were asked to answer. The results showed that there is a significant improvement in speaking skill of experimental group. The two groups were significantly different to the sake of using role play technique.

scholarly journals An Investigation and Evaluation of the Impact of the Integrated Language Skills Approach on English Departments EFL Students Speaking Skill in UOD

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Sabrin A. Ramadhan ◽  
Asma’ A. Hussein
Keyword(s):  
English Learners ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
English Departments ◽  
College Of Basic Education ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Listening And Speaking

Depending on the channel of communication, people use a variety of skills; particularly, listening and speaking. People often see the need to listen, understand and speak to one another in order to communicate successfully. For this reason, English learners are in need of learning the speaking skill effectively to be able to communicate successfully in real-life English situations. The study adopts theoretical and practical approaches to investigating and evaluating the impact of Listening and Speaking classes on the speaking skill of the students at the English Departments of the College of Languages and the College of Basic Education at the University of Duhok. The paper deals with teaching speaking skill and offers some activities on the speaking skill in the light of communicative language teaching (CLT) to assist the learners in communicating more efficiently in everyday English. The study adopts a mixed methods approach to evaluate the learners’ attitudes towards their speaking skill by constructing a questionnaire for the students, and interviewing them. The study concludes that the integration of the listening and speaking skills helps to improve the students’ speaking skill.

The Impact of Mobile Gadget in EFL Learning: Perceptions of EFL Undergraduates

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Imam - Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
Self Report ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Advanced Country ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Efl Learning

AbstractMost of young people are enthusiasticin having the most recent mobile gadgets just to boast among their peers. They likely utilize them to make phone calls, take pictures, listen to songs, watch videos, or surf the internet access for learning or just entertainment. In a technologically advanced country like Indonesia, the third and fourth generation (3G, 4G) mobile devices are available at affordable prices, and people of all streams find it necessary to own a mobile gadget for connecting and communicating.  Moreover, it has become a common trend among undergraduates to carry a mobile gadget to the classroom as well.In this paper, the researcher emphasize the potential of mobile gadgets as a learning tool for students and have incorporated them into the learning environment.The present study examines the application of mobile gadgetin EFL learning and investigates the perceptions of EFL students about mobile gadget in learning activity.  A field study was conducted on thirty undergraduatestudents majoring in accounting study Serang Raya University.  The methodology of data collection included a self-report for students and teachers’ and students’ questionnaire. Findings of the research are significant for EFL teachers and researchers for introducing innovative methods and helpful materials for the English classroom.Keywords: Mobile gadget, students’ perception, teachers’ perception..

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