AU - Soltan, Magda Atta Ahmed. AU - Qoura, Ali Abdel Samea AB - The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of MI- based activities in developing the speaking skill of a sample of first year secondary students. The quasi- experimental design was used for conducting this research. A group of sixty 1st year secondary students were randomly selected from one of Cairo governmental secondary schools, namely El -Salam Secondary School for Girls, in the school year 2014-2015 (30 students in the experimental group and 30 students in the control group). The instruments of the study were: 1) A speaking skills list; 2) A speaking pre-posttest and 3) AMI – Inventory and 4) A speaking performance scoring rubric. Reliability and validity of the instruments were verified. The experiment lasted for three months in the second semester of the academic year 2014/2015 .Results of the study indicated that the MI- based activities proved to be effective in developing the target speaking skill, namely; interacting and managing conversation effectively, following grammatical rules accurately, using relevant, adequate and appropriate range of words and word collocations, speaking fluently and demonstrating intelligible pronunciation. Based on the findings, a set of recommendations and suggestions for further research were highlighted. (Published Abstract) http://search.shamaa.org/abstract_en.gif ID - 125799 OP - pp. 11-37 T1 - The impact of MI-Based activities in enhancing secondary school EFL students’ speaking skill [Article] UL - 1 http://search.shamaa.org/fulltext.gif http://search.shamaa.org/PDF/Articles/EGJrciet/JrcietVol1No3Y2015/jrciet_2015-v1-n3_011-037_eng.pdf Full text (PDF)