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Abstract
This study aims at investigating the effect of a hands-on minds-on learning activities-based
program on the development of English language performance and creative skills of
kindergarteners. It tries to fill in the gap of research that applied hands-on minds-on learning
mostly to other fields than English as a foreign language and to older grades than
kindergarten. It applied the quasi experimental design. The participants of the study were 32
second-level kindergarteners. Two intact classes were randomly drawn from Engineer
Mohamed Fawzy Distinctive Language Formal School during the second term of the school
year 2019-2020. One classroom represented the control group (16 children), while the other
classroom represented the experimental group (16 children). The control group was exposed
to the traditional way of instruction that was teacher-centered, while the experimental group
was exposed to the hands-on minds-on learning activities-based program. The instruments of
the study were the English Language Performance Test and Creative Skills Test that were
administered before and after the program. The pre-administration intended to measure the
equivalence of both the control and experimental groups in their English language
performance and creative skills. The post-administration aimed at measuring the development
of English language performance and creative skills of both groups after administering the
program to the experimental group. Differences in the mean scores of the pre and post-tests
were calculated for each group separately and were analyzed by using the Two-Tailed t-test.
The results revealed that the hands-on minds-on learning activities-based program was
effective in developing both the English language performance and creative skills of secondlevel
kindergarteners.
Keywords Kindergarteners, hands-on minds-on learning, English language
performance, creative skills
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