Using Dogme in ELT to develop student teachers' Speaking skills and their self-efficacy

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Education Beni Suef University

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he main purpose of this research is to determine the effectiveness of dogme in developing the student teachers' speaking skills as well as their  speaking self- efficacy. Two statistical hypotheses were set to guide this research. The research adopted the one group research design to examine the study hypotheses. The participants consisted of (N=44) freshmen students English majors at the faculty of education in Beni Suef. The instruments and materials of the study represent in a pre-post speaking test, and a speaking self-efficacy scale, a checklist of speaking skills, a speaking rubric and ELT dogme . The research results revealed that dogme ELT has an impact on enhancing students' speaking skills as well as their speaking self-efficacy. This research has implications both for researchers conducting classroom-research and language teachers.

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