Using salmon's e-tivities learning model for developing efl preservice teachers' creative writing skills and writing dispositions

Abstract EN

The present study aimed at developing EFL creative writing skills, as simplified in short stories, and writing dispositions using Salmon's Etivities model of online learning.

About 96 participants from fourth-year preservice teachers enrolled in the English Section at the Faculty of Education, Benha University were randomly assigned into two groups: an experimental group [N=48] and a control group [N=48].

The present study adopted the mixed research method for data collection and analysis and the pre-post-test control-group design for the intervention.

Two main instruments were used for the quantitative analysis: the EFL creative writing pre-posttest with a scoring rubric and the writing disposition scale.

Several tools were used to adhere to the qualitative analysis.

Results showed that e-tivities learning model was effective in developing EFL creative writing skills and writing dispositions, and that writing disposition can be used as predicators for EFL creative writing skills.

It was recommended that this model should be integrated into writing instruction programs.