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The basic objective of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of using a blended learning program on developing secondary school students’ descriptive and narrative writing skills. The study sample included sixty students at the first year secondary school at Omar Ibn El Khattab secondary school for boys, Cairo. The design of the study was the pre/post test quasi experimental control design. To collect the data required, the following instruments were used: the pre/post test aimed at measuring students’ actual level at writing skills before receiving any instruction, the program and the Checklist to elicit the experimental group learners' post-experiment impressions, opinions and improvement suggestions about the program. The program was divided into two parts: the online part included the content of the suggested program for developing the writing skills and the face to face instruction that included sixteen sessions. The main aim of these sessions was to develop and support online learning as well as communicative tasks to encourage students to communicate with each others. The data obtained was analyzed using T-Test. Results indicated that the program developed the performance of the experimental group and that the results were in favour of the post test at (α < 0.05). The main conclusion was that the blended learning program was effective in developing first year secondary students’ descriptive and narrative writing skills.
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