A Programme Based on Integrating Story Grammar and Lesson Study to Develop Secondary School Students’ EFL Listening Comprehension, Critical Writing, and Self-Determination
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The current study is mainly intended to develop EFL listening comprehension, critical writing skills and self-determination of the secondary stage students through story grammar and lesson study. Accomplishing this purpose, the present study followed the pre-post, quasi-experimental-control group design. The researcher used two groups; experimental and control groups. Conducting the current research, a total of eighty EFL first secondary stage students from AL Sayeda Khadija school, East Zagazig Directorate, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt, was randomly allocated to two groups: forty students for experimental group and forty for the control group, and a pre– and post–testing technique was characteristically used for data gathering and analyzing .The researcher designed an EFL listening comprehension test to measure EFL listening comprehension, critical writing skills and a self-determination scale to measure the dimension of self-determination according to their gradual development by using story grammar and lesson study before and after the treatment . Generally, the current study was conducted over a period of ten weeks, along with 10 sessions for pre-test, applying the gradual steps of the story grammar and lesson study on listening comprehension and writing skills and determination. Finally, the results of the study proved that story grammar and lesson study are effective in developing EFL listening comprehension, critical writing and self-determination of the secondary stage students ,also it has clear and noticeable effect on their motivation to understand listening and write effectively.......
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