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Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the effect of electronic portfolios on student teacher’s writing performance, reflective thinking, and writing apprehension. Participant of the study-30EFL student teachers-who were purposefully selected from the faculty of education at Suez were exposed to four instruments. These instruments were: two writing performance tests, a reflective thinking test, and a writing apprehension scale. All students were pretested then divided into two equivalent groups: control(15 students)and exprimental(15 students) The expriment lasted for three months. During this period, students of the experimental group collected their digital essays, selected some of them to be included in their portfolios, reflected on those essays as on the whole portfolio, organized their artifacts, and presented their portfolios in the form of websites which were published on CDs and/or on the internet. On the completion of the experiment, all participants were posttested.Differences between the mean scores of the pretests and posttests were calculated for each group separately using Wilcoxon signed Ranks test. No significant differances were found between the mean scores of the pretests and posttests of writing performance, reflective thinking, or writing apprehension in the control group while the experimental group showed significant improvements in both writing performance and reflective thinking but not in writing apprehension. Mann-Whitney U test, which was used to calculate the difference between the mean gain score of the control group and that of the experimmental group, confirmed the same results. It was concluded that electronic portfolios had a significant effect on the writing performance and reflective thinking, but not on the writing apprehension of EFL student teachers. Based on these results, it was recommended that: (1) Students should be given enough opportunities to use modern technology in their learning .(2) teachers should encourage students to take part in the evaluation of their writing performance.