A Suggested Program for Developing the English Writing Skills of Secondary Stage Students and Reducing their Apprehension in the Light of Writing as a Process Approach and Using Electronic Learning

Abstract

The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of a suggested program for developing the English writing skills of secondary stage students and reducing their apprehension in the light of writing as a process approach and using electronic learning. Thirty first year EFL secondary school students from El Mahmoudia Secondary School for Boys, El Mahmoudia Administration, Behiera Governate, were randomly chosen to represent the study group. The study group received training through an e learning writing program in the academic 2017 -2018 . A pre-post writing test was administered to the study group in addition to a writing apprehension test . The results of the study supported the two study hypotheses. There is a statistically significant difference at 0.01 level between the mean scores of the experimental group students in the pre-and post-application of the English Writing Skills (content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, mechanics, and Total score ) in favor of the post test. There is also a statistically significant difference at 0.01 level between the mean scores of the experimental group students in the pre-and post-application of the writing apprehension test in favor of the post test. It was concluded that the suggested program showed effectiveness in using the suggested Program for developing the English writing Skills of secondary stage students and reducing their apprehension in the light of writing as a process approach and using electronic learning instruction in developing EFL secondary stage students' writing skills and its sub-skills as well as in reducing their writing apprehension