GENDER AND EFL WRITING: DOES WHATSAPP MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

• Authors: Bataineh Ruba Fahmi , Al-Hamad Raghda Fayez , Al-Jamal Dina Abdulhameed
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

WhatsApp is a potentially influential informal learning tool that may be used on the go. This study examines its potential utility in EFL writing with special reference to gender. The treatment encompasses a WhatsApp-based instructional program designed specifically to help develop writing performance, along the aspects of content and ideas, organization and mechanics, vocabulary, and language use, among 98 Jordanian eleventh-grade students. The participants were divided into two experimental groups, one male and one female, taught through WhatsApp. The data were collected by means of a pre-/ post-test whose analysis revealed improved writing performance, more for female participants than for their male counterparts.

Keywords

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WhatsApp; gender; writing performance

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 21-33

Contributors

author

Bataineh Ruba Fahmi

• Yarmouk University

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Al-Hamad Raghda Fayez

• Yarmouk University

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Al-Jamal Dina Abdulhameed

• Yarmouk University

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