Student's Strategies to Reduce Writing Apprehension (A Case Study on Zarqa University)
Researcher Name
Ibrahim Fathi Huwari & Yasser Al-Shboul
Name Of Journal
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
Volume No.
Vol 7 No 3, pp. 283-290
Date Of Publication
2016.05
Abstract
Writing apprehension is a serious problem faced by most ESL/EFL learners because their writing in the mother tongue is
different than writing in the foreign language. The study attempted to fill-in the gap on writing apprehension. The objective of
the study was to identify the strategies that the Jordanian undergraduate students those who are studying English language
and literature at Zarqa University used to reduce writing apprehension. The researcher used qualitative case study. This
research used purposive sampling in order to select information rich cases. Data collection was done through interviewing the
Jordanian students. The researcher interviewed twenty one students in order to gain the strategies that the students used to
reduce their apprehension of writing. In relation to the strategies, two main strategies were discovered by the students to
reduce their apprehension of writing: Behavior strategy, and Expert review and feedback strategy. The study concluded that
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