A program based on critical literacy pedagogy to develop secondary school students’ metadiscourse analysis

Abstract

This study aimed at improving the secondary school students' metadiscourse analysis through applying a critical literacy pedagogy . A number of 46 first grade secondary school students were  randomly chosen from Bani Helal secondary school  in the second term in the academic year 2021/ 2022 . They were divided equally into control group and treatment group. The researcher applied a pre-test of metadiscourse analysis on both groups. There scores were at a low level , and the results showed that they lack the metadiscourse analysis skill as they assumed that they didn’t hear this terminology before. The researcher applied a program based on critical literacy pedagogy  upon the treatment group for 3 weeks two sessions a week. After ending the program, both groups were submitted to the posttest of metadiscourse analysis. Discussing the results using SPSS  program indicated that there were statistically significance differences at 0.01 between the mean scores of the experimental group and the control group in the post administration of the metadiscourse analysis test favoring the experimental group. Results showed that using the critical literacy-based program  is effective in improving the metadiscourse analysis for the first -year secondary school students