شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

Project-Based learning as a motivating instructional method that places students at the core of the teaching. It is a curriculum-based work/profile, which needs collaborative work between learners inside and outside the classroom to collect data, to perform research and produce a certain product. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of project-based learning in developing English oral communication skills of secondary stage students. The quasi- experimental design was adopted. The participants were two groups, which were randomly chosen and assigned to an experimental group (30) from Port Said Governmental Language School and a control group (30) from Abu Bakr Governmental Language School. The English oral communication skills test was developed and administered for collecting data. Descriptive statistics, the t-test and the Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient were used for data analysis. The results revealed that project based learning was effective in developing English oral communication skills of secondary stage students. (Published abstract)