Ezzat Rashad Omar Suleiman

The effect of a proposed task-based learning program on developing English reading and writing skills for the first year Ssecondary school students / أثر برنامج قائم على التعليم عن طريق المهام فى تنمية مهارات القراءة والكتابة باللغة الانجليزية لدى طلاب الصف الاول الثانوى Ezzat Rashad Omar Suleiman ; Supervised Ali Ahmed Madkour , Awatef Ali Sheir , Muhammad Muhammad Abdellatif - Cairo : Ezzat Rashad Omar Suleiman , 2015 - 203 P. : facsimiles , photographs ; 25cm

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Graduate Studies for Education - Department of Curriculum and Methods Teaching

The objective of this study was to develop integrative reading and writing skills through a proposed program based on task-based learning. The participants of the study were 80 1st year secondary school students. The instruments of the study were; a checklist of reading and writing skills, a pre/post reading and writing test and a task-based reading and writing test. Statistically, there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group on the pre/ post test reading and writing test in favour of the post test at (0.01). There was also a significant difference between the mean scores of the control and experimental groups on the post reading and writing test in favour of the experimental group at (0.01). Moreover, there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group on the pre/post task-based test in favour of the post task-based test at (0.01). Finally, there was statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the post task- based test and the post reading and writing test in favour of the task-based test at (0.01).This means that the proposed program was effective in developing the experimental group students integrative reading and writing skills. Based on the findings the researcher suggested some recommendations and ideas for further studies



EFL and Task-based learning Reading Writing