Using Digital Story in Developing the Listening Skills among the Second Grade Intermediate Students

Abstract

: This study aimed to know the effect of using the digital story on developing the listening skills among the second-grade intermediate female students. To achieve this goal, the researchers adopted the semi-experimental approach that based on the design of experimental and control groups. The study sample consisted of (62) second grade intermediate female students in Bisha Province. It was randomly divided into two equal groups, one of which was the experimental group that consisted of (31) female students who studied listening texts in the sixth, seventh and eighth units of the English language course in the intermediate stage using the digital story. The other was the control group that consisted of (31) female students who studied the same units in the traditional method. The study material and tools were represented in the teacher’s guide which was designed according to the digital story, and a test in listening skills. The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference at the level of significance (α ≥ 0.05) between the mean scores of the female students of the experimental group who studied using the digital story and the scores of the female students of the control group who studied using the traditional method in the post application of the test of listening skills for the benefit of the experimental group. The researchers recommended the need to use the digital story in developing the listening skills in the intermediate stage.