The Impact of Task Based Learning Strategy on Enhancing Some EFL Creative Reading Skills of Secondary Stage Students

This study aimed at investigating the effect of the task based learning strategy on enhancing EFL creative reading skills and linguistic cultural awareness of secondary stage students. The researcher adopted quasi-experimental design of two groups: control (n=20) and experimental (n=20). The participants were (40) students from Rabee Fallah secondary school in, Diarb Negm, Sharkia, who were equally divided in to an experimental and control groups . The experimental group was taught by the task based learning strategy while the control group received regular instructions in the second term of the academic year (2022-2023). The experiment lasted for 8 weeks. The researcher carried out 10 sessions; each session took about 60 minutes. To achieve the aim of the study, the researcher designed a questionnaire for determining some creative reading skills and a scale for determining the most important linguistic cultural awareness dimensions approved by a penal of jury. Based on these creative reading skills and linguistic cultural awareness dimension, a pre-post creative reading test and linguistic cultural awareness scale were designed. The data obtained were statistically treated through the SPSS program. Results indicated that the experimental group outperformed the control group as a result of adopting this strategy.