The Effectiveness of a Blended Program on Enhancing Official Language Prep School Students’English Creative Writing Skills

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a blended leaning program on enhancing Official Language Prep school students' English creative writing skills, definitely in memoir writing. The research instruments included a list of creative writing skills, a pre-post writing test, an analytical creative writing skills rubric, a satisfaction questionnaire and a reflection report. A whole class of twenty-four 3rd. prep graders from Nile official school for languages in Bani Suef was assigned to be one experimental group which received training through a blended learning program. Pre and post tests were statistically analyzed through using t-Test and the effect size was calculated. Both the quantitative and qualitative data about the program showed that there were statistically significant differences between the pre and post test results in favor of the post test. Study findings and analysis also illustrated that blended learning had a positive impact on students' creative writing, their social and cognitive skills as well as the atmosphere of learning and teaching.