the effect of using google classroom application on 10th grade female students’ learning of the writing skill and their perceptions toward the application
This research aimed at investigating the effect of using the Google Classroom application in improving EFL tenth grade students' writing skill in English. To achieve this goal, the participants of the study were divided into sections by the school administration. They were randomly assigned into two groups by the researcher; each group consisted of 25 tenth-grade students studying at Al-Mansoura Secondary School for Girls in Mafraq, during the second semester of the academic year 2023-2024. An experimental group which was taught using the Google Classroom application, while a control group was taught by the regular instruction method. All students were given a pre-test then after two months they were given a post-test to determine whether they had any improvements in their writing skill after the experiment, and to see whether the Google Classroom application affected the experimental group students' attitudes. The results of the study indicated that: 1) The experimental group performed significantly better than the control group in writing skill due to the strategy of teaching. 2) The experimental group’s students’ positive attitudes toward using the Google Classroom application in learning writing skills. The study recommended that using the Google Classroom application could be applied as an effective strategy in the language-teaching and learning process including teaching writing skills. (Author’s abstract)