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This study aimed to investigate the effect of using motivating project-based learning strategy on improving 11th graders' achievement level in writing and speaking skills. Furthermore, it measured the effect of using motivating project-based learning strategy on changing students' attitudes towards English .To answer the study questions, the researcher adopted the experimental approach. The researcher purposefully chose (76) 11th graders from Sahab Secondary School, in Sahab for the experiment and randomly chose two classes of 11th graders. The participants were distributed into two equivalent groups, each of which consisted of (38) students. Motivating Project-based learning strategy was used in teaching the experimental group, while the conventional method was used with the control one during the second term of the school year (2015- 2016), The tools included a pre-post achievement test, an attitude scale (with pre& post applications) to determine the students' attitudes towards English Language and to investigate students' opinions of the using motivating project-based learning strategy as a new strategy in learning English writing and speaking skills. The gathered data were statistically analyzed by using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS),The researcher used ANCOVA and the effect size technique to measure the effect size of project-based learning strategy on the experimental group in each scope of the test, the attitude scale and the speaking evaluation card. The results of the study revealed that there were statistically significant differences in the mean scores of the pre-post test, speaking evaluation card and the attitude scale in the post application in favor of the experimental group. Such findings were attributed to the use of the project-based learning strategy in teaching the writing and speaking skills of English language. Taking into account this large impact that the findings showed, the researcher recommends the use of motivating project-based learning strategy to develop English language writing and speaking skills. Moreover, she recommends the use of the same strategy to develop other school subjects. She also suggests that further research should be conducted on the effect of other project-based learning strategies on other dimensions of learning, other school subjects with different grades.
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