The Effectiveness of a Proposed Internet Based Collaborative Tasks Program in Developing EFL Speaking Skills among Egyptian University Level Students
Occasional Papers Vol. 66(A) (April 2019) Occasional Papers Vol. 66(A) (April 2019) ISSN 1110 2721 The Effectiveness of a Proposed InternetBased Collaborative Tasks Program in Developing EFL Speaking Skills among Egyptian University Level Students Ebtihal A. Helal, Ph.D. TEFL Lecturer Faculty of Languages, October Modern Sciences Arts University Abstract: The aim of the current study was to help EFL first year intensive English course students at October Modern Sciences Arts University develop the necessary speaking sub skills through a proposed Internetbased collaborative tasks program. These tasks included (1) watching, retelling and commenting on online digital stories, (2) watching online videos on argumentative topics and having debates based on these videos and (3) using different internet sources to give group multi media presentations highlighting the causes, effects and possible solutions of varied problems. The study followed the quasiexperimental pretestposttest one group design. The study group consisted of thirty students who were randomly selected for the purpose of the current study. The experimental group was taught by the researcher throughout the Spring Semester of the academic year 20172018 according to the proposed program. The study tools included a checklist for determining the necessary speaking sub skills, a pre/postspeaking test, an analytical rubric for marking the students' oral performance on the pre posttest and the proposed program. Comparing the pre posttest speaking performance of the study group indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the pretest and posttest scores in favour of the posttest scores. Therefore, it was concluded that the proposed program proved to be effective in developing the study group students' overall speaking performance as well as in developing each speaking sub skill.
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