Master Quest: An online writing game to improve EFL proficiency at school Bárbara Echard ( b.echard@rseduca.cl ) Cristian Bravo Lillo ( cristian.bravo@rseduca.cl ) RSEduca, Santiago, Chile, September 2016 Abstract and summary This paper describes how an EFL online writing contest carried out in 2015 to 3,333 students can foster proficiency in the English language of students from 5th to 6th grade in Chilean schools. We implemented an EFL online writing contest for 3,333 students of 5th to 8th grades from 19 public and subsidized schools in Chile during the 2015 school year. We measured English proficiency on the skills of Listening, Reading and Writing (spelling) with a test administered before and after the implementation. The results show a significant improvement in test scores of those students from 5th and 6th grades who participated in the contest at least once versus those who did not. Students’ topic preferences for writing in English are also described and further...
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