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The current study aimed to develop some of the speaking skills and motivation for the second preparatory stage students through utilizing co-operative based activities. The study adopted the quasi-experimental design. Participants were second-year preparatory school students. Two groups (20) each was randomly selected from El-Henawy preparatory school for girls and E-Nahal school for girls, Zagazig, El-Sharkia governorate in the academic year 2021-2022. The experimental group learnt through a co-operative based activities for developing speaking skills and motivation. The instruments of the study included a checklist of speaking skills, an EFL Speaking test, and a motivation scale. Instruments were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-test. The scores of the experimental and the control group were compared and analyzed. The results of the study indicated that the experimental group surpassed the control group in the post-motivation scale, the experimental did better in the post-administration of the speaking test. Therefore, co-operative based activities has been effective in developing EFL speaking skills and motivation of the experimental group students.
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