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- Title
The Effect of Cooperative Language Teaching Approach on Students' Speaking Skills.
- Authors
Tegegne, Misganaw Tilahun
- Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to examine the effect of cooperative language teaching program on students' speaking skills. The participants were all first year law students in two classes at university of Gondar. The two groups were chosen based on the intact class of the researcher and the groups were assigned into experimental and control groups. The total number of students in the two groups was 80. A non-equivalent pre-test, post-test quasi experimental design was employed with 40 experimental and 40 control participants. The experiment was carried out during a period of two months of the academic year 2009 E.C. Accordingly, it was hypothesized students taught through cooperative language teaching instruction would improve their speaking skills better than those taught through conventional language teaching, students taught through cooperative language teaching will improve both their speaking fluency and accuracy better than those taught through the conventional method and students taught through cooperative language instruction will manifest significant difference. To examine these hypotheses pre and post speaking tests and speaking observation instruments were employed. The speaking test covered the dimensions of accuracy and fluency. The validity and reliability of the research instruments were validated. Paired sample t-test and repeated measure of ANOVA were used to analyze the results of the study. Results indicate that the speaking test score in the experimental group improved significantly, and to an extent greater than the control group due to the treatment, and hence, EFL teachers in the university should use cooperative language activities in their language classrooms.
- Subjects
FOREIGN language education; PROSODIC analysis (Linguistics); STUDENTS' language
- Publication
Writers Editors Critics, 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1, p84
- ISSN
2231-198X
- Publication type
Article