GENDER AND EFL WRITING: DOES WHATSAPP MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
GENDER AND EFL WRITING: DOES WHATSAPP MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
Author(s): Ruba Fahmi Bataineh, Raghda Fayez Al-Hamad, Dina Abdulhameed Al-JamalSubject(s): Foreign languages learning
Published by: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group and The University of Nicosia
Keywords: WhatsApp; gender; writing performance
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Teaching English with Technology
- Issue Year: 18/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 21-33
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English