The Effect of Content-Based Instruction Program on Developing Some English Speaking skills for Tourism & Hotels Students

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of a Content-Based Instruction program on developing some English speaking skills for tourism and hotels students. It was conducted in The Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotels (EGOTH), at Luxor, Egypt , adopting experimental design . For this purpose, two groups (N = 84) were randomly chosen, a control group and an experimental group. Students of the experimental group were taught the proposed program. To test the program's effectiveness, pre and post tests were administered on both groups. Results showed that the performance of the experimental group students was better than the control group due to the effect of the proposed program. Results also indicated that developing some speaking skills helped developing the general language proficiency of the experimental group.