The Impact of Interactive Videos on Improving English Writing Skills of 8th Graders in Saudi Arabian Public Schools

This quasi-experimental study (wherein n = 25 eighth-grade students from one public school in eastern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) examined the impact of interactive videos on English as a foreign language (EFL) writing skills, including sentence construction, vocabulary, cohesion, comprehension, and grammar. Drawing from multimedia learning theory (Mayer, 2017) and the Interactive, Constructive, Active, Passive (ICAP) framework (Chi & Wylie, 2014), we implemented a single 10-minute interactive