The Effect of Applying the Toulmin Model on Developing Egyptian EFL Learners' Speaking Argumentative Skills and Critical Thinking Abilities /
تأثير ترجمة الأفلام على تقوية الفهم السمعى لمتعلمي اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية /
By Noha Sobhy Mohammad Ghoneam; Under the supervision of Dr. Amani Badawy, Dr. Randa Anwar
- 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. + CD.
Thesis (Ph.D)-Cairo University, 2023.
Bibliography: pages 133-149.
This study attempted to examine the extent to which training in the use of the Toulmin model of argument (TMA) helped students produce sound oral arguments in Egyptian EFL classrooms. Furthermore, this research focused on developing lesson plans to foster Egyptian EFL students' argumentation skills and critical thinking abilities. It also assessed the learners‟ attitudes towards implementing the TMA in their speaking classes. The study was carried out in two parts. Through two cyclic iterations of the design-based research (DBR) process in Phase 1, the TMA-based lesson plans were developed to enhance argumentation skills and critical thinking abilities through pedagogical strategies employing debate activities. In terms of Phase 2, which comprised the implementation of the lesson plans, the pretest-posttests control group design was employed for the intervention stage, with participants being divided into experimental (EG) and control groups (CG). The participants were 80 students from the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Menoufia University who voluntarily participated in this study. Both groups were given a pretest before the experiment in which they were required to present arguments while debating, followed by a posttest after the ten weeks of treatment administration. Two rubrics were used by two raters and the researcher to score the speech arguments of the participants in the pre-and posttests on the target features. The attitudes of the learners towards implementing the TMA in their speaking classes were assessed through a questionnaire. The results of the data analysis revealed that, in comparison to the pretest, the argumentative speeches from the posttest featured more rich and sophisticated reasoning. In terms of argumentation skills and critical thinking ability, the experimental group outperformed the control group significantly. This demonstrates that teaching the TMA enhanced learners' understanding of the function and application of the argumentation elements. Furthermore, the questionnaires showed that the participants considered the training of the Toulmin elements beneficial in improving the way they expressed their viewpoints while debating. Most importantly, this dissertation developed several pedagogical implications to guide teaching argumentation skills using the TMA in Egyptian EFL speaking classrooms. نشاهد في مصر معظم المواد السمعية والبصرية، التي تقدم باللغات الأجنبية، ومع ذلك، لم يتم حل مشكلة استخدام الأفلام المترجمة داخل الفصول الدراسية حتى الآن. ولذلك، فهذه الدراسة محاولة لدراسة تأثير الأفلام ذات الترجمة باللغة الإنجليزية وكذا العربية، والتي بدون ترجمات، على فهم الاستماع ومهاراته الفرعية على المتعلمين المصريين للإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية وأظهرت نتائج تحليل البيانات لاختبارات فهم الاستماع تفوق مجموعة الترجمة على المجموعة التي بلا ترجمة أما مجموعة الترجمة العربية فكانت ذات أداء أفضل من مجموعة الترجمة الإنجليزية. بالنسبة لقسم اختبار الاستماع بالتويفل فقد أظهرت المقارنة بين ما قبل الاختبار وما بعد الاختبار لكل مجموعة من المجموعات الثلاث وجود فرقا كبيرا بكل مجموعة، بينما لم يكن ثمة فرق كبير بين المجموعات الثلاث.