Student's Strategies to Reduce Writing Apprehension (A Case Study on Zarqa University)

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 writing apprehension was a widespread phenomenon among the participants.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s1p283