Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of using WhatsApp on developing fifth grade EFL students’ speaking skill during the first semester of the academic year 2020-2021. To achieve this purpose, the researchers selected carefully a representative sample of 46 male students studying at Jijin Secondary School for Boys. The participants were already divided into two groups; a control group of 21 students and an experimental one of 25 students.This study tended to apply this experiment by using the quasi-experimental method. The instrument was a performance test in a shape of an interview that was used as a pre-test and a post-test. Moreover, this test was used to measure any possible differences between the both groups. The results of the study indicated that there were statistically significant differences between both of the groups and the mean scores, in favor of the experimental one in speaking due to the suggested strategy of using WhatsApp.In the light of the findings, the researchers recommend the necessity of implementing contemporary strategies such as WhatsApp in teaching and learning English speaking skill. Besides, the researchers suggest that further studies should be conducted on the effect of WhatsApp on developing other English language skills and in other language competences.
Highlights
1.1 Background of the StudyWith rapid advances and improvements in technology, language learners‟ interests change and this requires teachers to fetch for more technological methods to attract their attention
Pre speaking test in a form of interview was administrated to both groups to identify the actual level of the students before starting the experiment, means, standard deviations and t-test were used to find out any significant differences between both groups of the study, as shown in the table below
The question was "Are there any significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental and control group students' speaking due to the strategy of teaching (Using WhatsApp vs. regular instruction)?" For answering this question, means, standard deviations of students' speaking of the two groups for the strategy of teaching (Using Website Games vs. regular instruction) and t-test were calculated to find out any significant differences between both groups of the study, as shown in table below
Summary
1.1 Background of the StudyWith rapid advances and improvements in technology, language learners‟ interests change and this requires teachers to fetch for more technological methods to attract their attention. There is an important role for technology in language teaching and learning process. It is a fact that technology provides learners with many materials for learning. Lawrence (2002) argued that technology could facilitate the teaching-learning process and could provide learners to be good self-learners. It is recommended that teaching and learning process is a complex unit in which learners as well as teachers should compromise between the regular and the contemporary instruction strategies with help of technology (Maness elt.ccsenet.org English Language Teaching Vol 12, No 6; 2019 192 2004). Mona (2017) studied WhatsApp as useful way to enhance students' learning and excitement, and to improve self-learning skills. Many types of documents could be sent via WhatsApp to the students so that the learning materials are available to them
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