Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Institute of Educational Studies - Department of Curriculums and Methods of Teaching

The main aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of some educational approaches on developing English creative writing skills of secondary stage students in two genres, essay and short story writing. For this purpose, (90) EFL students enrolled in Elkadima secondary school for girls in Kafr Elsheikh city were randomly selected and randomly assigned to three groups; two experimental groups and a control one. The first experimental group was taught using the electronic teaching, via a weblog, based on the process writing approach whereas the second experimental group was taught using the face-to-face teaching based on the process writing approach. As for the control group, it was taught using the traditional method. The experiment lasted for two months (nineteen school periods, 50 minutes each) in the second term of the academic year 2013/2014. Four hypotheses were formulated to be tested. The researcher{u2019}s tools were a checklist to identify the English creative writing skills needed for first year secondary school students, pre-post English creative writing skills tests, and a scoring scale. The ANOVA and t-test were used to analyze the data. Research findings indicated that the electronic teaching, via a weblog, based on the process writing approaches was more effective than the face - to - face teaching based on the process writing approaches only or the traditional method in developing students{u2019} creative writing in the two genres, essay and short story writing

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