The effect of home assignment on developing written composition sub- skills of English majors at faculty of education, Beni-Suef university

Abstract EN

Written composition is important for student teachers at Faculty of Education.

A distinguished student teacher develops his performance at school when he is able to make use of his written skills.

Written composition helps in communication, forming ideas, and information clear to student teachers.

In English, there are written composition and oral composition.

The current study deals with written composition as it has an important role to student teachers The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of home assignment on developing some written composition skills in English of Second Year English majors at Faculty of Education.

Questions of the study were: (1) What are the skills in which student teachers’ levels are weak in written composition of second year English majors at Faculty of Education, Beni-Suef University? (2) To what extent does home assignment affect the skills of paragraph writing of second year English majors at Faculty of Education, Beni-Suef University? (3) ) To what extent does home assignment affect the skills of a written letter of second year English majors at Faculty of Education, Beni-Suef University? (4) To what extent does home assignment affect the skills of a written report of second year English majors at Faculty of Education, Beni-Suef University? In the diagnostic test, participants of the study were 33 student teachers at Faculty of Education, Beni-Suef University.

In the post test, student teachers were 36 after they had been 40 in the pre/test Procedures included administering the diagnostic test after achieving validity and reliability.

According to the results of the diagnostic test which was the first question of the study:, the researcher started designing a program to help student develop their skills of written composition.

Before administering the pre/test ,the researcher determined validity as the test was submitted to juries, then reliability was achieved.

Students' scores were low in the diagnostic and the pre/post/ tests.

Afterwards, the researcher started teaching the program after being designed.

Students were given the instructional materials.

The researcher used home assignment.

Results of the study: To answer question 2, which is: To what extent does home assignment affect the skills of paragraph writing of second year English majors at Faculty of Education, Beni-Suef University? it is shown in (table 4) where means were shown stating the differentiation between the pre/test and post/test in every skill.

and in (table 5) as T test was 21.002.To answer question 3, which is: " To what extent does home assignment affect the skills of a written letter of second year English majors at Faculty of Education, Beni-Suef University? it is shown in (table 6) where means were shown stating the differentiation between the pre/test and post/test in every skill.

and in (table 7) T test value was 21.385 To answer question 4, which is: To what extent does home assignment affect the skills of a written report of second year English majors at Faculty of Education, Beni-Suef University? it is shown in (table 8) where means were shown stating the differentiation between the pre test and post test in every skill.

and in (table 9) as T test was 26.147 Student teachers at Faculty of Education made use of the program.

It is better to reconsider the importance of home assignment at schools and Faculties of Education to develop the skills of written composition.