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The effectiveness of a suggested strategy based on handwriting without tears approach in enhancing EFL primary stage pupils' handwriting legibility

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Type Article
Author Awad, Amira Micheal Abd ElMessih. English as a Foreign Language.
Second author El Marsafy, Azza Ahmed Hamdi. Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Educational Technology, Faculty of Education, Zagazig University.
Pages pp. 35-50
Host Item Entry Journal of Faculty of Education. Vol. 31, no. 122, p. 5, April 2020
Electronic Location Full text (PDF)  PDF
Descriptors Learning strategies  -  English  -  Second language instruction  -  Handwriting  -  Skill development  -  Writing instruction  -  Primary school students
Language of document English
Country Egypt
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a proposed strategy based on Handwriting Without Tears Approach in enhancing (44) primary stage pupils' handwriting legibility. The participants were equally divided into experimental and control groups at Kafr Sakr Formal Language School, Sharkia Governorate. To achieve the aim of the research, the researcher designed Handwriting Checklist, Pre-post Writing tests, Pupil's Book and Teacher's Guide based on the suggested strategy. The experimental group was taught via the suggested strategy in the first term (2019) for one period weekly which lasted for 90 minutes, while the control group received regular instruction. The results of the study indicated that the suggested strategy proved to be effective in improving the experimental group handwriting legibility than the control group. This study recommended that handwriting must receive an insightful emphasis especially at the primary stage. (Published abstract)

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Awad, Amira Micheal Abd ElMessih. (2020). The effectiveness of a suggested strategy based on handwriting without tears approach in enhancing EFL primary stage pupils' handwriting legibility . Journal of Faculty of Education. Vol. 31, no. 122, p. 5, April 2020. pp. 35-50 Retrieved from search.shamaa.org