فعالية التدريب المرکّز الصريح على خصائص الکلام المتصل من خلال برنامج الوسائط المتعددة في تنمية الفهم ووضوح الکلام. The Effectiveness of Explicit Focused-Training Multimedia Program on Features of Connected Speech in Developing Listening Comprehension and Speech Clarity

نوع المستند : بحوث فی مجال المناهج وطرق التدریس

المؤلف

مناهج وطرق تدريس اللغة الانجليزية- کلية التربية - جامعة الأزهر، القاهرة، مصر.

المستخلص

نبعت فکرة الدراسة الحالية من نتائج دراسة نُشرت مؤخرًا (عطية وسالم، 2018)، والتي أکدت أن  84 ٪ من المشارکين فيها في المقابلات شبه المفتوحة ((Semi-structured Interviews التي تم إجرا ؤها علي طلاب الفرق الأربع لشعبة اللغة الإنجليزية بکلية التربية جامعة الأزهر  أن الرهبة والقلق والعصبية النابعة من عدم التمکن من دقة الأصوات أو جلاء ووضوح الکلام المتصل تعد من أهم الأسباب الرئيسة والمحرکة لرهبة التحدث، ومن ثم استهدفت الدراسة الحالية التحقق من صحة افتراض مؤداه أن " تدريب طلاب شعبة اللغة الإنجليزية علي استقبال وإنتاج خصائص اللغة المنطوقة في الحديث اليومي بشکل مباشر وصريح، وقد يتجاوز تحسين مستويات الفهم السمعي، الي انتاج اللغة بصورة واضحة وجلية". استخدمت الدراسة الحالية التصميم التجريبي ذو التطبيقين القبلي والبعدي لبحث فاعلية التدريب المباشر والصريح القائم على الاستقبال والإنتاج لخصائص الخطاب المتصل باستخدام الوسائط المتعددة في مقابل المدخل التقليدي في تنمية وضوح الکلام والفهم الاستماعي لدى طلاب شعبة اللغة الإنجليزية کلغة أجنبية، وقد استمرت المعالجة التجريبية لمدة 12 أسبوعا (48 ساعة)، وبلغت عينة الدراسة 64 طالب بالفرقة الثانية شعبة اللغة الإنجليزية، کلية التربية، جامعة الأزهر، ولقد أشارت نتائج البحث إلى وجود فروق دالة احصائياً في وضوح الکلام ومهارات الاستماع بين مجموعتي الدراسة، حيث کان للتدريب الصريح القائم على الاستقبال والإنتاج لسمات الخطاب المتصل باستخدام الوسائط المتعددة أثر فعال في تنمية وضوح الکلام ومهارات الاستماع لدى متعلمي اللغة الإنجليزية کلغة أجنبية، ولقد قدمت الدراسة التضمينات والتطبيقات التربوية لنتائج الدراسة. 
This current study was inspired by the findings of a recently published study by Attia and Salem (2018). In it, 84 % of the participants in the semi-structured interviews across the four grade levels reported that the fear of being ridiculed due to their inaccurate and unintelligible pronunciation of sounds and stream of speech was a central trigger of their speaking apprehension. As such, the study emanates from the supposition that if EFL students are explicitly and systematically trained on features of connected speech, they will perhaps not only be able to receive and comprehend a highly fleeting message, but may also intelligibly produce it. A pre-post design was adopted to assess and compare the effectiveness of explicit-perception-and-production-focused-training on features of connected speech delivered via multimedia versus the traditional approach in developing listening comprehension and speech clarity among EFL majors. An intervention study of 12 weeks’ programme was undertaken with 64 second graders of the English Department, Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University.  After 48 hours of instruction on suprasegmental aspects of English pronunciation, there were significant differences in listening attainments and speech clarity between the two groups of the study. The training was shown to have an enhancing effect on developing EFL learners' listening comprehension and speech clarity. The findings also indicated that there is a large effect size at the total level in both listening (.891) and speech clarity (.853) to the effect of the training program. The paper concludes with the theoretical and pedagogical implications of the study. 

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