WhatsApp-based instructional treatment combining the process approach with mobile mediation for EFL writing¶

Design · All designs
Evidence · 1 claim (1 mixed) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

A researcher-designed instructional treatment that computerized Modules 1–3 (Starting Out, Celebrations, Sport) of the prescribed textbook Action Pack 11 for WhatsApp mediation. As printed, "The treatment consisted of writing texts, lesson plans and writing worksheets, a self/peer editing checklist, and a self/peer revision checklist." Students worked in two WhatsApp groups (Amazing Writers and Smart Writers), collaborating and exchanging experiences with peers while the teacher monitored, revised, reviewed and evaluated student work.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Internet connectivity and WhatsApp on students' mobile phones
a dedicated mobile phone number set up exclusively for the experiment
orientation meetings covering parental consent, group-membership ethics, and the POWER strategies

Constraints¶

challenges related to mobile phone ownership and teachers' potential annoyance by a flood of sometimes irrelevant messages, as the article notes for WhatsApp groups generally

Target Learners¶

Jordanian eleventh-grade EFL students

Learning Goals¶

EFL writing performance across content and ideas, organization and mechanics, vocabulary, and language use

Claims¶

After eight weeks of WhatsApp-based EFL writing instruction, one Jordanian eleventh-grade section's mean writing scores rose and the other's fell, with no pre-to-post significance test or control group reported [~W]

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Ruba Fahmi Bataineh, Raghda Fayez Al-Hamad and Dina Abdulhameed Al-Jamal. (2017). GENDER AND EFL WRITING: DOES WHATSAPP MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Teaching English with Technology, 18(2), 21-33. http://www.tewtjournal.org

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`type`	`design`
`id`	`whatsapp-based-efl-writing-treatment`
`title`	`WhatsApp-based instructional treatment combining the process approach with mobile mediation for EFL writing`
`description`	`A researcher-designed instructional treatment that computerized Modules 1–3 (Starting Out, Celebrations, Sport) of the prescribed textbook Action Pack 11 for WhatsApp mediation.`
`status`	`review`
`generated`	by `process:settle-candidates` on `2026-11-03`
`trust`	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
`sources`	1 — `ruba-fahmi-bataineh-2017`

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