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participation in discussions; giving presentations; and listening skills. 
The current study was designed to investigate students' perception of web-resource 
integrated learning as experienced in Web Quest Writing Instruction (WQWI). For this 
purpose, two hypotheses were generated: 
Hypothesis 1:
Students of the experimental group will be motivated by the authentic 
materials and tasks posted on the Web Quest.
Hypotheses 2:
Students of the experimental group will demonstrate more progress in
their writing skills than that yielded by the control group.
Instructor
The instructor, a native speaker of Arabic, has been teaching English as a foreign 
language for over seventeen years in the English department of public secondary school 
and of some universities. She has an extensive experience in teaching and coordination 
at Public Secondary Schools. She has authored 9 English books and 3 Law and Legal 
English books so far. She is majored in English and Applied Linguistics. The instructor 
assisted in training the counselors, of the Republic of Lebanon Ministry of education and 
higher education center for education development (CERD), on the use of web quests 
and authentic materials in classrooms. Moreover, she had utilized Web resources for 
teaching writing prior to this research project. Her role in this research was providing 
traditional writing instruction to participants in the control group and Web Quest 
Instruction to participants in the experimental group. 
 
Subjects 
This research was conducted in a public school in the capital of Lebanon, Beirut. The 
study employs on the quasi experimental pretest posttest design since the participants of 
the study are two eighth grade classes in a public school receiving 6-hour- English 
instruction a week. The control group includes 22 students whereas the experimental 
group includes 23 students ,and 34 students of both groups completed their seventh 
grade class in the same public school whereas the remaining 11 subjects were
previously enrolled in different public schools. As such, linguistic composition of the 
subjects of both groups should be similar since all the Lebanese public schools employ 
similar teaching and learning standards ,textbooks(Grade 8 official English language 
textbook) and regulations being monitored and supervised by the Republic of 
Lebanon 
Ministry of Education
& Higher Education. The control and experimental groups consist of 
45 students whose ages range from 13 to 16 years old. The 5 -week instruction given to 
the subjects covers the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.