bstract
The main of this research is to study the impact of “Wikispace” as a teaching tool on academic achievement of French as a second language in a population of high school students in Algerian schools. On this basis, an experimental design was adopted in which 63 high school students were randomly sampled and allocated to two groups: experimental (30 students) and control (33 students). In order to measure the effect of web2 “Wikispace” as a teaching tool on the achievement of French as a foreign language, a pre-and-post tests were conceived and designed in order to test the degree of achievement before and after introducing the independent variable. The statistical analysis of the pre-and-post testing results was performed by means of t-student. The results showed significant differences between the two groups, and that the experimental group benefited significantly better than the controls from the teaching tool of French as a foreign language. The study concluded that teaching by using web 2 ”wikispace” tool has a substantial impact on learners’ achievement of French language, and the students are satisfied to learn by this new method.
Keywords: E-learning; web2 ; wikispace ; foreign language; scholar achievement.