The Effectiveness of Elaboration Strategy in Developing Prospective Teachers’ EFL Comprehensibility Skills

Abstract

The current study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of utilizing an elaboration strategy in fostering EFL comprehensibility skills of 60 third-year students of the English Section at the Faculty of Education, Zagazig University,who were equally divided into an experimental and a control group. The researcher adopted quasi-experimental method of the two groups. To achieve the aim of the article, the Comprehensibility Skills Test was designed and pre-administered to both groups. The elaboration strategy was adopted to develop the experimental group comprehensibility skills while; the control group received regular instruction. The results indicated that the experimental group outperformed the control group in the post-test administration due to the use of elaboration strategy. T-test was used to compare the mean scores of prepost-administration. Therefore, it can be concluded that using the elaboration strategy has a positive effect on developing third-year students’ of the English Section at the Faculty of Education, Zagazig University EFL comprehensibility skills.