The Impact of Integrating Reading and Writing Skills on Palestine Technical College Students' Paragraph Writing and Attitudes towards Writing Skill
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2020-06-01
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The study aimed at investigating the impact of integrating reading and
writing skills on Palestine technical college students' paragraph writing and
attitudes towards writing skill .The targeted skills were writing a coherent
paragraph ,paragraph development ,unity, topic sentence ,coherence
,supporting sentences ,cohesion and concluding sentence . To achieve this aim,
the researcher employed a representative sample of 80 EFL students studying
at Palestine technical college.
The sample was divided into two groups: an experimental group
consisting of 40 students each group has 20 male students, and 20 female
students, and the control group consists of 20 male, and 20 female students
.The two groups were equivalent in their previous learning achievement in
English writing in particular .Regarding the instruments, the researcher used
two tools: pre/post Test to explore students' performance in writing a coherent
paragraph, and paragraph skills ,and attitude scale to reveal students' attitudes
towards writing .The test was used as a posttest to assess any possible
differences between the target groups. The collected data were analyzed and
treated statistically by using of SPSS .The findings of the study revealed that
there were significant differences in participants' performance before and after
integrating reading and writing skills in favor of post-performance. The
findings also pointed toward the presence of significant differences between
the attitudes of the experimental group in favor of after experiment .Moreover,
the study's findings revealed that there were significant differences between the
mean scores attained by experimental group and that by the control group in
favor of the experimental group.
There were significant differences between the mean scores of female
students than male students in favor of female .Additionally, implementing the
effect size equation and Eta square the study revealed that integrating reading
and writing skills had a great effect size .The study recommended that teachers
as well as lecturers are asked to integrate reading and writing activities in
teaching writing skills in general and paragraph writing in particular, to
develop and improve their paragraphs. Also, it suggested that further research
should be conducted on the impacts of integrating reading and writing skills on
different English skills and other college subjects.