The Effect of Using Wiki on the EFL Students’ Writing Performance at Al al-Bayt University and Their Attitudes Towards It

Abstract

In light of distance learning and teaching, various applications have become a necessity. Teachers have started evaluation techniques that cope with the recent changes that resulted from the global innovations related to teaching progress as well as evaluation and assessment techniques. As instructors of various courses of EFL, the researchers used Wiki Writing as an application while teaching Writing 2, which is a compulsory course, that is usually taken by the second-year EFL students at Al al-Bayt University in Jordan, during the Summer Term of the academic year 2020/2021. The study aimed to investigate the EFL students’ attitudes at Al al-Bayt University toward Wiki and its effect on their writing performance. The total number of the students in the Writing to sections was (36), and the number of the students who responded to the questionnaire that was distributed at the end of the term was (19). In analyzing the data, descriptive statistics were used and the results showed that there was a statistically significant difference in the post test scores in favor of the experimental group , and the students’ attitudes in the experimental group towards using Wiki in their writing were positive; most students who responded to the questionnaire ( they are considered as a sample that represents the whole number of students in that course) liked the Wiki in their writing.