The Impact of Using Picture Narrating Strategy on Primary School Pupil Speaking Skills and Anxiety

The Context of the Problem
The researchers
noticed that pupils at primary school are 
not able to express themselves well orally. In order to 
document this problem, the researchers conducted informal 
interview with ten EFL primary teachers. Results showed 
that 80% of teachers confirmed the problem. To follow the 
problem, the researchers conducted a pilot study to 
investigate pupils' level in speaking skills and anxiety (see 
Appendix (A)). A speaking test based on pupils English 

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text book "Time for English" was designed and 
administered to a random sample of fifth year primary 
pupils from Omar Ibn Elkhatab primary school at Awish 
Elhagar, Mansoura City. The following table shows the 
results of the test.  
Table 1: Results of speaking test of 5th year primary pupils. 
N
Test score 
Mean
Standard 
deviation 
percentage 
45 
20 
8 
3.1 
42 % 
Results in table 1 indicates that the percentage of the 
sample's score (42%) on the speaking sub-skills 
(vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, fluency) is below 
average.
Additionally, the researchers conducted a pilot anxiety 
scale to be more convinced about the existence of the 
problem. The pilot anxiety scale consists of 10 statements. 
The statements of the scale were simplified to fit young 
learners. Pupils had to respond to each statement by 
choosing one of the three alternatives: agree, neutral, or 
disagree. The following table shows the results of the 
anxiety scale.  
Table 2: Results of anxiety scale of 5th year primary pupils.