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A1 Abdelhameed, Ahmed Abdelfatah A2 El Marsafy, Azza Ahmed Hamdi AB The aim of this study was to develop EFL writing skills among Faculty of Specific Education students through a suggested program based on the communicative language teaching approach in the light of academic standards. The quasi-experimental design was used. The participants were 80 students who were randomly divided into two groups: experimental (40) and control (40) from the Faculty of Specific Education, Zagazig University in the first term of the academic year 2019-2020. The instruments of the study were: a) writing skills checklist. b) Writing skills test. c) Rubric for grading the writing skills test and the program based on the communicative language teaching approach was taught for two months during the first semester of the academic year 2019-2020. The experimental group was taught through the program based on the communicative language teaching approach (CLT). On the other hand, the control group was taught using the regular method. The results indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of both groups in the writing skills, in favor of the experimental group. It was concluded that the present study proved that the program based on the communicative language teaching approach had a positive effect on developing writing skills for the second year Faculty of Specific Education studens. (Published abstract) http://search.shamaa.org/abstract_en.gif OP pp. 51-66 T1 Developing EFL writing skills through a suggested program based on the communicative language teaching approach among second year Faculty of Specific Education students [Article] UL https://jfeb.journals.ekb.eg/article_165594_17cea4342869375b24b4dce420fa3364.pdf Full text (PDF) 1 http://search.shamaa.org/fulltext.gif