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A VIRTUAL CLASS BASED PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' EFL ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS

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Salah Mohamed Youssef, Eman Mohamed Abd-Elhaq, Sahar El Sayed Alshura
» doi: 10.53555/ecb/2023.12.Si13.293

Abstract

The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of a virtual class based program (VCP) for developing secondary school students' EFL oral communication skills. The study participants were sixty second-year secondary school students chosen randomly from Martyr Ahmed AL-Dardery Experimental Language School, 10th of Ramadan Educational directorate, Sharkia governorate, Egypt. They were divided into two groups: experimental group (N30) and a control one (N-30). The researcher prepared an oral communication check list.to identify the appropriate EFL oral communication skills required for the participants. A pre post EFL oral communication test was administered to both groups to measure their EFL oral communication performance before and after implementing the program. The virtual class based program (VCP) was implemented to the experimental group for seven weeks while the control group studied at regular instruction. The results of the study showed that the experimental group outperformed the control group in the EFL oral communication test. Comparing between the experimental group pre- and post-administrations indicated the positive effect of the program (VCP) on developing the participants' EFL oral communication skills.

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