Abstract
The present study aimed at investigating the effects of using a program based on the writing workshop approach on developing functional writing skills of pre-service teachers of English in Hurgada faculty of Education. For that purpose, the researcher constructed and validated a teaching program based on the writing workshop approach, checklist of the skills and subskills of functional writing skills, and pre-posttest of functional writing skills. The sample of the study was forty students in Hurgada faculty of Education, English Division (prospective teachers of English). They were randomly chosen and assigned to an experimental group. The experimental group students were taught writing using the writing workshop approach after they had functional writing skills pretest. Findings of the study indicated the writing workshop-based program had significant effects on improving the subjects' functional writing skills.
Highlights
The current study aimed at investigating the effect of the writing workshop approach on developing the functional writing skills for third year primary stage prospective teachers of English
Ttest formula was employed in analyzing students' scores on the functional writing skills test
Conditions for utilizing t-test formula were actualized as follows: Randomization of sampling: The study sample was randomly chosen and assigned to the sample of the study of third year primary stage prospective teachers of English, Hurgada Faculty of Education. 3.2 Ancillary Analyses t-test formula was used in the statistical treatment of the study results
Summary
The current study aimed at investigating the effect of the writing workshop approach on developing the functional writing skills for third year primary stage prospective teachers of English. To achieve this aim, the researcher constructed the following tools: 1. A program for teaching functional writing skills based on the writing workshop approach. 2. A checklist that was used to determine these functional writing skills and conventions of writing necessary for them. 3. A writing test that was used in assessing students' functional writing skills. The researcher adopted the Quasi-experimental research design which is suitable for the objectives, sample and tools of the study
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