Effect of E-mail Exchange on Omani Students' EFL Writing Skills

The present study investigated the effect of e-mail exchange on Omani grade 7 Basic Education students' English language writing skills and attitudes. It adopted a quasi-experimental 2x2 factorial design in which the factors were the treatment (authentic e-mail method/ imaginary e-mail method) and gender (male/female) supplemented with a qualitative part that dealt with the content of the participants' e-mails and the researcher's observation during the implementation period. The statistical analysis of the data indicated that high level students wrote more e-mails than low level students. It also revealed that exchanging e-mails whether to real or imaginary e-pals, improved students' writing test scores.

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Khulud got her B.A in EFL in 1993 at SQU, Oman. She had long teaching experience in primary, preparatory and secondary schools. She got her M.A in 2014 in ELT Curriculum and Methodology. Currently, she works as a EFL supervisor and EFL Exam writer.