A Suggested Strategy based on e-Portfolio for Developing Creative Writing Skills in English Language among Intermediate Stage Students in Kuwait

أسم المؤلف: Reem Kh. M. Alghareeb

الوصف:
The current research aimed at investigating the effect of a suggested strategy based on e-portfolio on creative writing skills in English language among intermediate stage students in Kuwait. The research examined the following hypotheses: (1) There are significant differences at level (α ≤0.05) between the two means in posttest and pretest scores of the experimental group in Fluency, Flexibility, originality elaboration and the total score. (2) There are significant differences at level (α ≤0.05) between the two means of the control and the experimental group in posttest of fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, total score, gain total. (3) There are significant differences at level (α ≤0.05) between the two means of the control group pretest and post test in fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, the total score. (4) There are significance differences at level (α ≤0.05) between two means of posttest creativity of the experimental and control group when controlling the pretest scores. The research sample consisted of 32 students in the nineth grade who study the English language course “Target English” in the first semester of the academic year 2012/2013. The researcher implemented the experimental research method with a pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design. For data collection, the researcher designed the research instrument which is a creative writing scale to measure the creative writing of the students in the pretest and posttest in the dimensions of: fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. The students in the control group taught by the traditional method of teaching writing while the students in the experimental group taught by the suggested strategy based on e-portfolio for doing creative writing activities. The research yielded a significant differences at level (α ≤0.05) between the two means in posttest and pretest scores of the experimental group in flexibility, originality, elaboration, the total score as well as the absence of statistically significance differences in the dimension of fluency. The research also revealed significant differences at level (α ≤0.05) between the two means of the control and the experimental group in the posttests of flexibility, originality, elaboration ,total score, gain total score as well as the absence of statistically significance differences in the dimension of fluency. With regard to the control group, the results showed significant differences at level (α ≤0.05) between the two means of the control group pretest and post test in fluency, flexibility, originality, the total score as well as the absence of statistically significance differences in elaboration. In addition, there were significance differences at level (α ≤0.05) between the two means of posttest creativity of the experimental and control group when controlling the pretest scores. Keywords: learning strategy, e-portfolio, creative writing skills, creative writing in English language, Kuwait

التوثيق: Alghareeb, R. K. (2013). A Suggested Strategy based on e-Portfolio for Developing Creative Writing Skills in English Language among Intermediate Stage Students in Kuwait. Kingdom of Bahrain: Arabian Gulf University.