The Effectiveness of Story Retelling Strategy in Developing some English Speaking Skills of Secondary Students

The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of story retelling strategy in developing some English oral communication skills of secondary schoolers. The subject of this study consisted of fifty students selected at random from first- year secondary schoolers at Port-Said Secondary School for Girls, in the second semester of the academic year 2014-2015. They were randomly assigned into two groups: an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group (25 students) received training through applying story retelling strategy. On the other hand, the control group (25 students) received instruction through the traditional method. The quasi-experiment design was used. A questionnaire for jury members was designed and distributed to determine the most important oral communication skills those need to be acquired by first- year secondary schoolers. Based on these selected skills, a pre-post oral communication skills test was prepared. The treatment was applied by the researcher to develop the required oral communication skills of the experimental group students in eight sessions; each session was a period of about 45 minutes per week.  Results of the study proved the effectiveness of story retelling strategy in developing some English oral communication skills identified in the present study of first- year secondary schoolers.