The effect of visual thinking on developing the adult learners' English language fluency

Abstract EN

The study aimed to design a program based on the visual thinking to develop the adult learners' English Language Fluency.

This study started with the review of the literatureand previous studies related to visual thinking, visual literacy, writing ability and writing fluency.

The researcher designed the research program, the instruments of measuring the trainees' progress including the writing fluency components, the pre and posttest, the rubric, and the participants' questionnaire.

The participants were 14 adult learners (N= 14), with Arabic as their first language; enrolled at the upper intermediate level, Telecom Egypt Institute.

They received a five-week intensive English session, two sessions a week, for five weeks, which the researcher was required to boost the learners' Writing Fluency where the researcher was the instructor.

The trainees' scores on the pre and posttestwere statistically analyzed using T-test and effect size factor.

In addition, a qualitative analysis of the trainees' progress was conducted and analyzed.

Both quantitative and qualitative analysis revealed the effectiveness of using the visual thinking on developing the adult learners' English language fluency and specifically the adult learners' English writing fluency