The Effect of Autonomous Learning Programme on EFL College Students Performance in Writing

This study aims at investigating the effect of autonomous learning programme on EFL college student s performance in writing and finding out the development in the experimental samples autonomy. Thus, an experiment is designed .F ourty students from the College of Basic Education at university of Missan have randomly been chosen (twenty students as an experimental group which are taught composition writing by the use of autonomous learning programme and twenty students as a control group which are taught composition writing according to conventional ways) during the academic year 20 I 0- 20ll.The validity of the programme , the questionnaire ,the test, and the scoring scheme have been obtained by exposing them to jury members in the fields ofEFL and linguistics. Then, the participants are post-tested on writing. In order to compare the results of the treatment in the autonomous group with the non-autonomous group, t-test is used. The null hypothesis is rejected because the autonomous group outperformed the non-autonomous group.