The effect of fishbone strategy on Iraqi EFL university students' writing performance level

Abstract EN

Teaching writing which is a unique talent through a photo organizer strategy is better than displaying a sample.

to get higher effects for growing writing technique, instructors need to train their college students to name the primary and subordinate thoughts through knowing the reason and effect instead than generate ideas and gathering information only.

fishbone strategy as a splendid way assists students to ease their task and clarifies their views earlier than start writing.

applying fishbone strategy expects enhancing students’ performance level and develops their critical thinking implicitly.

the present research aims at exploring students' level of performance of fishbone strategy that is used in teaching writing on Iraqi ESP physical education and sport sciences college students' performance.

the design of the research is an experimental design pre / posttest with experimental and control groups.

the study has been applied to (40) students from 3rd stage at the college of physical education and sport sciences at Baghdad university, they have been divided into two groups, twenty students in each group.

face validity and reliability coefficient of the pretest and posttest have been computed.

man Whitney-test is used to analyze the gathered data.

final results show students' positive perception of implementing fishbone strategy in learning EFL writing in Iraq and statistically significant difference between the two groups in favor of the experimental group.

finally, conclusions and recommendations have been stated.