Using Student Response System to Enhance Listening and Speaking Skills for EFL Saudi Secondary School Students

Abstract

T his study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of using student response system to develop EFL listening and speaking skills for secondary school students. Participants of the study were sixty students from al Taleah secondary school and were divided into control group and experimental one. Instruments of the study were a pre-post listening and speaking skills test to determine the level of the student listening and speaking skills. After measuring its validity and reliability, the listening and speaking skills test was administrated on both groups. Results showed no statistically significant differences between the two groups. While teaching the control group with traditional ways, the researcher administrated the proposed SRS-based program on the experimental group. Finally, post-listening and speaking test was administered on both groups. Results showed that experimental group performed better in the post- listening and speaking test after the experiment. This showed that the treatment program has an effective impact on improving EFL studentsʹ listening and speaking skills. According to all of that, it could be concluded that using SRS to develop EFL listening and speaking skills for EFL students is very effective.