Utilizing Digital Stories to Improve Primary School Pupils' EFL Listening Comprehension Skills

نوع المستند : المقالة الأصلية

المؤلفون

1 Professor of Curriculum and Instruction (TEFL) Faculty of Education Banha University

2 Lecturer of Curriculum and Instruction (TEFL) Faculty of Specific Education Zagazig University

3 An English Language Teacher

المستخلص

The current study aimed at developing some EFL listening comprehension skills for fifth year primary school pupils through the use of a digital stories strategy. The study adopted the quasi-experimental design through the use of two-groups (experimental-control) and pre-posttest of EFL listening comprehension skills. Participants were fifth year primary school pupils. Two groups (30 each) were chosen from of Martyr Hani Al- Nomani Primary school, Hehia city, Sarkia Governorate., Egypt in the academic year 2023-2024. The experimental group was taught through digital stories strategy for developing their EFL listening comprehension skills. The control group received regular instruction. To achieve the purpose of the study, the researcher designed a questionnaire for identifying the EFL listening comprehension skills, an EFL listening comprehension skills test, and a rubric for assisting the EFL listening comprehension skills test. By the end of the experiment, the test was post administered to both groups to find out the effect of the digital stories strategy on developing the experimental group students' EFL listening comprehension skills. Findings of the study were statistically dealt with via the Statistical Package for the Social Science software (SPSS). It was found that the experimental group outperformed the control group in EFL listening comprehension skills. Accordingly, it was concluded that the digital stories strategy has had a positive effect on the EFL listening comprehension skills of the primary stage pupils.

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