Using Games_Based Assessment to Develop English Oral Reading Fluency Skills of Primary stage Pupils استخدام التقييم القائم على الألعاب في تنمية مهارات طلاقة القراءة الشفهية باللغة الإنجليزية لدى تلاميذ المرحلة الإبتدائية

Abstract

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of games-based assessment in developing English oral reading fluency skills of primary stage pupils. The quasi-experimental design was adopted. The participants were two intact groups from El-Adawy primary school, which were chosen and assigned to an experimental group (20) and a control group (20). The experiment was applied during the first term of the academic year (2021/2022).The English oral reading fluency questionnaire and the English oral reading fluency test were developed and administered for collecting data. Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney Test, and Wilcoxon Test were used for data analysis. The results revealed that games-based assessment was effective in developing English oral reading fluency skills of primary stage pupils. .The data obtained from the study has been analyzed statistically by SPSS program. Research results revealed significant differences between the post-test mean scores of the experimental and control groups in the oral reading fluency skills in favor of the experimental group.

Keywords

• keywords: games-based assessment (gba)
• oral reading fluency (orf)
• primary stage pupils