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THE EFFECT OF RAFT STRATEGY ON IRAQI EFL PREPARATORY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ WRITING PERFORMANCE AND SELF- EFFICACY

M.A. Candidate. Tulba Jafar Sadak, Asst. Prof. Dhea Mizhir Krebt, Ph.D.

Volume: 9 Issue: 3 2019

Abstract:

Writing is considered to be a process of getting writing product such asletters, essay, story and so on, affected by such elements as vocabulary, grammar, mechanic, content, and style of writing. It is crucial to consider self-efficacy as a good way to observe writing achievement and motivation, because existing research demonstrates that the "beliefs that students create, develop and hold to be true about themand these are vital forces in their success or failure in school. The current study aims at finding out the effect of RAFT strategy on Iraqi EFL preparatory school students'writing performance. A non-randomized pretest-posttest control group has been adopted. The sample of the study consists of (70) students of Iraqi EFL 5thpreparatory school, (35)students for experimental group and (35) students for the control group, the academic year (2018- 2019). The instruments of the study are writing test and writing self-efficacy scale which have been exposed to jury members in the field of ELT, Linguistics and literature to verify their validity. The results of the study show that there is a statistical significance difference between the experimental and control group in their writing performance which means RAFT strategy promoted a learning environment that provided opportunities for exploring and investigating ways of understanding their roles as writers, that’s to give them the opportunity to play many roles as (thinkers, writers, editors, and essayist, etc.,).

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