Effect of dialogue journal writing on EFL students ' speaking skill

A study investigated the effect of dialogue journal writing on English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) students ' speaking skills. Subjects were 136 students enrolled in a history program at an Egyptian university, divided randomly into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received training in dialogue journal writing in addition to classroom English language instruction; the control group received only the language instruction. All students were pre and posttested on English speech skills. Results indicate that the groups scored about equally on the pretest, but the experimental group scored significantly higher on the posttest, suggesting the journal-writing training helped improve speech skills. Topics for further research are recommended. (Contains 37 references.) (Author/MSE) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document