The Effect of Using Feature Films to Develop prep Stage Students' Speaking Skills

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to design a feature film based program to develop the speaking skills of the second year preparatory students. Participants were 33 second-year preparatory students in Om ElMo’mnean preparatory school for girls, Kafr Elzayat administration, ElGharbia governorate in the academic year 2013-2014. The design of the present study is based on the one-group design to investigate the effect of using feature films on developing the speaking skills. In this study, the researcher used feature films as authentic audiovisual material to expose students to authentic language in real contexts. A pre-post speaking test and analytic speaking skill rubric were designed and used to assess the sub-skills of speaking: communication, accuracy and fluency. Results of the present study indicated that the speaking skills of the second-year preparatory stage students were developed. There were statistically significant differences between the two mean scores of the pre and post speaking test of the participants in favor of their posttest mean scores.

Key words: Feature films – speaking skills – Analytic speaking rubric.