The Impact of Telegraphic Cue Activities on EFL Iraqi Pupils’ Achievement

Abstract

In preparatory schools, the issue of establishing foundational language abilities is especially urgent, with the language being essential for students' future academic success. The present study sought to assess the influence of telegraphic cue activities on creative and inspiring communication regarding EFL preparatory school students. In particular, it explored the question of whether these activities facilitate creative communication skills and proposed a null hypothesis that there would be no significant difference in creative communication skills in the experimental and control groups. It uses a Quasi-experiment with a pre-test and post-test design for both groups. The study sample comprised 60 female fourth-grade students from Al-Kansaa Preparatory School for Girls in the province of Kirkuk. Results showed that activities using telegraphic cues had a significant improvement in the creativity of English communication skills of EFL students and a high correlation of post-test achievement between a creative communication activity.