THE EFFECT OF RECEIVING ELECTRONIC FEEDBACK AND THE EFFECT OF GENDER ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE WRITING PERFORMANCE

The current study tries to suggest the findings obtained in a research project investigating whether development in writing performance has resulted from applying electronic feedback (email) in writing class. This study attempts to examine the difference between electronic writing modes and old-fashioned writing styles. The project has forty participants studying English in Karoon Language Institute of Tooyserkan, Iran who were chosen through the present intact classes and attended two different EFL writing courses; a computerized classroom and a traditional one. Then the results and findings were investigated. The major finding demonstrated that e-mail users made enhancement in their writing achievement. Another finding suggests that female users (in the electronically oriented group) showed a greater improvement on their writing performance than male users.