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The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of video captioning to enhance EFL secondary school students sociolinguistic competence. The study followed a quasi-experimental one group design. The participants were 30 first secondary school students at Yasser Freij Issawi Martyr Lieutenant –Colonel secondary school at Shebin Elkom, Menoufia Governorate during the second semester the academic year 2021/2022. To identify the most important and required sociolinguistic competence components for the participants, a checklist of sociolinguistic competence components was developed and validated by 10 EFL Jury members. A pre- and a post communicative competence test was developed. Communicative competence rubric was adopted to grade and analyze students EFL sociolinguistic competence components. Finding of the study revealed that there was a statistically significant difference at 0.01 in the post assessment of sociolinguistic competence test in favour of the post-assessment. The study hypotheses were verified. Consequently, video captioning was effective in enhancing EFL competence among secondary school students.
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