Frequently EFL university students encounter challenges in spoken discourse that prevent their academic progress.These difficulties focus the need for a pedagogical approach that integrates linguistic, social, and contextual dimensions of communication.Hymes's SPEAKING grid offers a holistic strategy to apply the elements of communication.Hymes's SPEAKING grid can be beneficial for enhancing spoken discourse competence.Thus the current study aims to enhance the spoken discourse through SPEAKING grid to EFL university students of Tikrit/ College of Education for women.To fulfill this aim, 50 first-year EFL college students participated in the study and were randomly divided into experimental and control groups, with 25 students in each group.The experimental group received instruction in Hymes's SPEAKING grid for two hours per week over an eight-week period while the control group taught by a conventional method.An eclectic model was used to cover the aspects of spoken discourse required in the current study A validated test and diverse statistical means used to examine the collected data.The results of the statistical analysis by using a t-test for two independent groups show that the mean score of the EG of the students' spoken discourse in the posttest higher than the control group.This means that there is a significant difference between the achievements of the two groups, in favour of the experimental group.Moreover, the results reveal that there is a significant difference in the mean scores of the EG in aspects of spoken discourse, most favorably with comprehension, interacting with others and lexis achievements.This significant difference between the two groups reinforce the idea that Hymes's SPEAKING grid positively influences students' spoken discourse.
AZZAM et al. (Thu,) studied this question.