The Effectiveness of Using E. Contextualized Situations for Developing EFL Speaking Skills among Secondary School Students

The present study aimed at developing some Speaking Skills among Secondary School Students through using E. Contextualized Situations. The participants of the study consisted of first year, El Sadat Secondary school (N=50) during the second semester of the academic year 2021/ 2022. The study followed the two-groups (experimental- control) pre-post test design. Four main tools used were: An EFL Speaking Skill checklist required for first year students, an EFL pre Speaking Skill test to measure some of students’ speaking skills, an EFL post Speaking Skill test to measure some of students’ speaking skills, an EFL Speaking skills rubric to score students' performance on the EFL Speaking Skill tests. In addition, the study used quantitative method for collecting and analyzing the data. t-test was used to compare the mean scores of pre and post test of the study participants. E. Contextualized Situations method was applied on the participants during the second semester of the academic year 2021/2022. Results of the quantitative analysis revealed that the participants' EFL speaking skills were developed significantly as a result of using E. Contextualized Situations. Therefore, it can be concluded that using E. Contextualized Situations is effective in improving EFL first year secondary school’s speaking skills