An investigation of the improvement level of some Iraqi EFL college learners' writing sub-skills and its relationships to computer-assisted language learning of English syntax

Abstract EN

The present study aims at investigating the improvement level of three writing sub-skills: language use, organisation and content, and the relationships between this improvement level and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) of English syntax.

The population of the study is college students from whom a sample of (103) subjects is randomly chosen from Fourth Stage, English Department, College of Education for Human Sciences, Al Muthanna University in the academic year (2015-2016).

The present study adopted the one-group pretest-posttest experimental design.

The duration of the experiment takes six weeks to implement the Computer-Assisted Language Learning of English syntax programme as well as the pre and post administrations of English syntax tests and writing tests.

An English syntax Computer-Assisted Language Learning programme is designed by the researcher beforehand representing the material of the study.

The main questions of the research are turned into six hypotheses to be tested.

Statistically, the researcher uses the T-test for non-independent samples and the Pearson Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation to test the hypotheses.

The results of the study refer to the fact that the three investigated writing sub-skills are improved.

However, this improvement does not relate to the Computer-Assisted Language Learning of syntax rules.