THE EFFECTS OF PERIPHERAL TEACHING ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ WRITING SKILL IN CYBER ENVIRONMENTS

This study aimed to find out the effects of peripheral teaching on Iranian EFL learners’ writing skills in cyber environments. After administrating a Nelson (Fowler and Coe, 1976) test, a group of 80 homogeneous students at language institute were selected from a total population of 120 at the intermediate level in Dehdasht, Kohgiloyeh and Boyer Ahmad province, Iran. Then, they were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. While experimental A was assigned to cyber environment and received instructions regarding peripheral teaching, B was selected as the control group. A t-test was conducted to compare the subjectsʹ means and to determine the effect of peripheral teaching. The results depicted that peripheral teaching in cyber environments had a significant effect on improving Iranian EFL learnersʹ writing skills, (P < .05).