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Text Chatbot Assisted Edublogs for Enhancing the EFL Technical Writing Performance among Computer and Informatics Students

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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       This research aimed to enhance the EFL technical writing performance among Computer and Informatics Students. The research design was one group pre and post-test quasi-experimental design. The participants were 69 2nd year students at Ismailia Faculty of Computer and Informatics in Suez Canal University. To address students' needs of the EFL technical writing for their future career in different fields of work, text chatbot assisted edublogs were prepared and oriented towards the participants' practice of the EFL technical skills of writing computer software guides, writing technical reports on network problems and writing technical evaluations of websites. There were two text chatbot assisted edublogs for each writing skill so that there were two tasks for each writing skill and there was one edublog for each writing task. Four tools were developed, validated and implemented by the researcher. They were: 1) Needs Assessment Questionnaire, 2) EFL Technical Writing Test, 3) Scoring Rubric for the EFL Technical Writing Performance and 4) Online Reflection Paper for students to provide written responses to open-ended questions about their satisfaction and the benefits of text chatbot assisted edublogs. The findings revealed that text chatbot assisted edublogs had a high positive impact on enhancing Computer and Informatics students' EFL technical writing performance as those text chatbot assisted edublogs were satisfactory, credible, authentic and beneficial to their future career.

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10.21608/jfees.2022.241755

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Chatbot, Edublog, EOP, technical writing, English for Computer & Informatics and EFL Writing Performance

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Mohammad Abu El-Magd Mohammad

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Abu El-Magd

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46

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2

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34723

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2022-04-01

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2022-06-04

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2022-04-01

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99

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145

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2356-9948

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2735-3389

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مجلة کلية التربية فى العلوم التربوية

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22 Jan 2023