Using Edmodo in teaching English to develop secondary stage students' writing performance

الملخص EN

This study aimed at investigating the effect of Edmodo on developing secondary stage students' writing performance skills.

Thirty students from Elwan secondary school, Assiut Educational directorate were chosen as the study participants.

The study adopted one- group quasi experimental design.

A pre-post writing performance skills test was designed to assess the students' level in the specified skills before and after the treatment.

Data collection process included both quantitative and qualitative techniques.

Results were analyzed and findings revealed there was a statistically significant difference at (0.05 ) level between the mean scores of research group in the pre-post administration of the writing performance skills test favouring post testing.

The results revealed that Edmodo was effective in developing first year secondary stage students' writing performance skills.

The effect size using Eta equation was (.98) which is higher than (.8).Using Edmodo, both students and teachers can have a safe online environment to conduct more effective and sustainable teaching and learning process.