Investigating EFL Students’ Attitudes Toward Talented Speakers Contest
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Students’ attitudes, Talented Speakers Contest, EFL context
الملخص
Talented Speakers is a Saudi speech contest which aims at developing students’ spoken proficiency in English language. Thus, the primary objective of the current monograph is to scrutinize the EFL students’ attitudes toward Talented Speakers. The study included 100 contestants from primary, intermediate and secondary public and private schools. For the sake of the data collection, a three-dimension pre/during/after-contest questionnaire was designed, reviewed and administered. As far as data analysis is concerned, the descriptive statistics was carried out to analyze the obtained data. The overall findings of the study revealed that there as was a high positive attitude toward the three stages of Talented Speakers contest: preparation, performance and overall evaluation. The study concludes that contest has a favorable impression on the EFL students’ attitudes. The study recommends other contexts where English is learned and taught as a foreign language, especially in the MENA region to hold a Talented Speakers contest to enhance their students’ spoken ability in English.
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منشور
2024-03-21
كيفية الاقتباس
Dr. Bandar Mohammad Saeed Al-Sobhi, Dr. Fahd Kamis J Alzahrani, Saud Ahmad Abdullah Alshehri, Mohammed Ibrahim A Hatan, Adel Mohammed Atiyah Al-Ghamdi, & Ibrahim Saleem Mohammad Alsubhi. (2024). Investigating EFL Students’ Attitudes Toward Talented Speakers Contest. Journal of Arts, Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, (102), 318-331. https://doi.org/10.33193/JALHSS.102.2024.1062
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