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Abstract The problem of the study, its tools, outlines, study group, procedures, findings, conclusion, recommendations, and suggestions for future research are provided in this chapter. The present study seeks to investigate the reading and writing skills of the 3rd year prospective teachers. The study attempts at giving recommendations and suggestions on how the study group can develop these skills. The following tools are used to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher prepared a preintegrated reading and writing test, A post integrated reading and writing test. And integrated rubric for reading and writing skills. A study group of 3rd year prospective teachers at the faculty of Education, Menoufia University (N=30) are used to implement this study. This study aims at developing Some EFL reading and writing skills for this group. The reading skills include literal comprehension skills, critical comprehension skills, and creative comprehension skills. In addition to the Writing skills that include the mechanics of writing and contentrelated skills. The researcher measures the average of this development through using Pre-post integrated reading-writing test. This study is implemented in the second semester of the academic year 2018-2019. The findings of the study show that mobile learning strategy via what’s app is effective in developing prospective teachers’ overall reading skills. Also, it is effective in developing each of the reading skills including literal comprehension skills, critical comprehension skills and creative comprehension skills. Moreover, Mobile learning strategy via what’s App is effective in developing prospective teachers’ overall writing skills. Also, it is effective in developing each of the writing skills including mechanics skills and content-related skills.Summary 2 Conclusion Results show that using mobile learning strategy via what’s App was effective in improving the reading and writing skills of third-year prospective teachers. Therefore, it is highly recommended that what’s App should be integrated into the process of teaching reading and writing skills. The present study also provides an illustration concerning what is what’s App and how it stimulates EFL instructors to use it in their classes. What’s app can be used to provide supplementary instruction to help learners to overcome the problems of reading and writing English. Recommendations of The Study. Based on the previous results, the following recommendations could present. 1- Prospective teachers should be provided with real authentic situations through using what’s app that help in developing their reading and writing skill. 2- There should be a recommended approach towards using recent technology instruction and technical devises especially (what’s app) in teaching in the universities. 3- It is necessary to specify more time in English language teaching to teach reading and writing skills especially as integrated skills. 4- Lecturers should teach prospective teachers how to use what’s App in teaching reading and writing skills as integrated skills.Summary 3 Suggestions for further research. To sum up, the following suggestions are made based on the study results for future research: 1- Studies that deal with the effect of using mobile learning strategy via what’s app in developing the listening skill in English are relatively not much, therefore it is suggested that this would be the topic of future research. 2- Further research is needed to investigate the effect of teaching mobile learning vocabulary via what’s app on teaching speaking in English. 3- Further research needed to study the effects of using mobile learning strategy through what’s app to develop the language skills of EFL prospective teachers. 4- The study of the effect of mobile learning strategy by using what’s app to teach the EFL reading skills and writing skills throughout all the educational stages should be extended in further research. 5- It is greatly recommended that more studies should be carried about the effect of mobile learning strategy by using what’s app to develop the integrated skills of listening and speaking skills for prospective teachers. |