Using video captioning to enhance EFL spoken discourse competence among secondary school students

Abstract EN

The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of video captioning in enhancing EFL secondary school students' spoken discourse competence.

The study followed the quasi-experimental one group design.

The participants were 30 first year secondary school students at Yasser Freij Issawi Martyr Lieutenant –Colonel Secondary School at Shebin Elkom, Menoufia Governorate during the second semester of the academic year 2021/2022.

To identify the most important and required spoken discourse competence components for the participants, a checklist of spoken discourse competence components was developed and validated by 10 EFL Jury members.

A pre- and a post communicative competence test was developed.

A communicative competence rubric was adopted to grade and analyze students EFL spoken discourse competence components.

Finding of the study revealed that there was a statistically significant difference at 0.01 in the post assessment of spoken discourse competence test in favour of the post-assessment.

Consequently, video captioning was effective in enhancing EFL spoken discourse competence among secondary school students.