Developing educational media students

Abstract EN

Developing Educational Media Students The main purpose of this study was to develop EFL Educational Media students' writing skills through using project-based learning (PBL).

The study adopted the quasi experimental design.

Two intact classes from 4th year, Tanta University Faculty of Specific Education Educational Media Department, were randomly assigned to the experimental group (N=42), and the control group (N=42).

The experimental treatment started early September 2018, and lasted until late January 2019.

The experimental group was engaged in conducting a project as well as studying the syllabus prescribed in the text book.

Five issues of a monthly journal were produced as a culminating product of the project.

On the other hand, the control group was taught only the prescribed syllabus.

The two groups were pre-tested and post-tested on writing skills using two tests prepared by the researcher.

A t- test was employed to measure the difference between the two groups.

Besides, (ŋ2) was applied to measure the effect size of the experiment treatment on participants' performance in writing skills.

Results have indicated that the performance of the experimental group in writing skills improved significantly.

This implied that project-based learning proved successful in developing students' writing skills.

It is concluded that engaging students in authentic and constructive learning environment, helps students use English for real purposes, explore more with the language, apply concepts and construct knowledge.

It is recommended that great emphasis should be given to using PBL in EFL classes.