Effect of E-mail Exchange on Omani Students' EFL Writing Skills

The present study investigated the effect of e-mail exchange on Omani grade 7 Basic Education students¿ English language writing skills and attitudes. It adopted a quasi-experimental 2x2 factorial design in which the factors were the treatment (authentic e-mail method/ imaginary e-mail method) and gender (male/female) supplemented with a qualitative part that dealt with the content of the participants¿ e-mails and the researcher¿s observation during the implementation period. The statistical analysis of the data indicated that high level students wrote more e-mails than low level students. It also revealed that exchanging e-mails whether to real or imaginary e-pals, improved students¿ writing test scores.