Using the Communicative Approach to Develop EFL Secondary School Students’ Speaking Skills.

The aim of this study was to use the Communicative Approach todevelop EFL secondary school students’ speaking skills. Thisstudy employed a pre/post-one group design. An intact class (45females) from the first-year secondary students were randomlyselected from one of the public secondary schools, “Omar IbnAl-Khatab Secondary school for girls”, in Qalubiya Governoratein the first term of the scholastic year 2018-2019. The tools usedin this study were a speaking skills checklist, a pre-post speakingtest to measure first-year secondary students’ speaking skills, aproposed program designed in the light of CommunicativeApproach, and finally a success criteria used for students’reflection on their learning. The oral performances in thepre/post-test were analyzed to measure the speaking sub-skillsoutput. The collected data were statistically analysed using t-test.The findings revealed that communicative language teaching hada positive effect on the students’ speaking skills. therefore, It isrecommended that teachers might find increasing the students’talk time beneficial to help the students improve their speakingskills by designing effective communicative activities.