The Effect of a Program Based on Oral Corrective Feedback on Improving Secondary Stage Students' English language Speaking

The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of using oral corrective feedback in improving the speaking skill of first grade secondary students, to achieve this goal three tools were built:
The first tool was pre/posttest to measure the impact of using oral corrective feedback on improving students' speaking skill. The second tool was an interview with two of English teachers at the same school to collect information about the students and to know the way by which the teachers run the oral feedback with their students during the class time. In addition, to know the most preferable types to use with their students. The third tool was conduction students' questionnaire which convey their opinions of the feedback, which type they prefer most, and the preferable time to receive the technique, in addition to the observation for both teacher and students.
The study sample consisted of (90) first –secondary students in one of Cairo schools belonging to the Directorate of Education. For the purpose of the study, two groups were used, one as a control group and the other as an experimental group where the control group did not receive any feedback to realize their speaking levels without providing them with feedback and to know the impact of using and applying this technique in improving this skill, while the experimental group received the oral feedback accompanied by a variety of speaking activities to improve and develop students speaking skill and their performance. Thus, to prove whether oral feedback technique has an impact in improving students speaking skills or not.
The results of the study showed significant differences (0.05) attributable to the impact of feedback associated with a variety of different speaking activities which were in favor of the pilot group. While the control group did not show any improvements in the students speaking skill which is a clear evidence attributable to using the oral corrective feedback technique.