The Effectiveness of a Webinar Based Program in Enhancing EFL Preparatory Students’ Speaking Skills and Motivation.....

Abstract
The present research aimed to improve the EFL preparatory students’ speaking skills and motivation using a webinar-based program. The participants were two classes of the second-grade preparatory stage from “Thamarat Al-Hayat School” in Mansoura city, Dakahlia, Egypt. The researcher adopted a quasi-experimental design, dividing the sample into a control group (n = 20) and an experimental one (n = 20). The research instruments were an EFL pre-post speaking skills test, an analytic speaking skills rubric and an EFL speaking motivation scale. The experimental group was taught using an online webinar program through the Zoom platform, while the control group was taught through the traditional way of teaching. The research results showed statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group and the control group regarding speaking skills and motivation in favour of the experimental group.
Keywords: Webinar, Zoom, speaking skills, motivation