The Impact of Blending Learning on EFL College Students’ Writing Abilities
Nisreen Kadhim Khudhair
Instructor at Ministry of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.5.3.17
Keywords: Blending learning, college students’ writing abilities
Abstract
Blended learning is an instructional approach that gathers digital educational knowledge and chances for connection electronically with traditional classroom strategies and techniques. It focuses on the foundation of physical foundation of both instructor and learner, with many requirements of learners control over place, setting ,and time. The purpose of this study is to reveal the effectiveness of blending learning on EFL college students’ writing abilities . To achieve the aim of the present study, a sample of (139)Iraqi EFL college students randomly chosen from college of Education/ University of Babylon . The total number of second-year students is 139, which has already been divided into two sections: A (60 students) and B (43 students), which are chosen at random to represent the experimental and control groups, respectively.After that, a posttest is created. The test is given to both the experimental and control groups. During the test, students must pay attention to five components of writing that are evaluated in the assessment: content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics. The main findings show that employing a blended learning technique in the classroom can assist college students enhance three out of five components of their writing; content, structures and grammar , and vocabulary. This could be due to the fact that blending learning strategy is integrative and connected face to face and online learning.
