Using SOLO Taxonomy in Developing Oral Fluency and Self Confidence of the First Year Prep Stage Students

The current study is mainly intended to develop the EFL oral fluency skills and self-confidence of the preparatory stage students through the structure of observed learning outcome ( SOLO taxonomy). Accomplishing this purpose, the present study followed the pre-post, quasi-experimental-control group design. The researcher used two groups; experimental and control groups. Conducting the current research , a number of forty EFL first preparatory stage students from AL Nasseriya prep school, East Zagazig Directorate, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt, was randomly allocated in two groups , twenty students for experimental group and twenty for control group, characteristically managed a pre – and post – testing technique for the purpose of data gathering and analyzing. The researcher designed EFL oral speaking test to measure EFL oral fluency skills and self-confidence scale to measure the dimension of self-confidence according to their gradual development by using SOLO Taxonomy before and after the treatment . Generally the current study was conducted over a period of ten weeks, along 20 sessions for pre test, applying the gradual steps of the SOLO on oral fluency skills and self-confidence. Finally ,the results of the study approves that the structure of observed learning outcomes (SOLO Taxonomy ) is effective in developing the EFL oral fluency and self-confidence of the preparatory stage students ,also it has clear and noticeable effect on their motivation to speak and talk orally .