WRITING APPREHENSION IN ENGLISH AMONG JORDANIAN POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA (UUM)
Journal Title: Academic Research International - Year 2011, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
This research investigated writing apprehension among Jordanian postgraduate students studying at University Utara Malaysia (UUM). Jordanian students lack the ability to write in English at schools or universities level in Jordan because they do very little writing in English. This study had three main objectives: (1) to investigate the levels of Writing Apprehension among the Jordanian postgraduate students when writing in English at UUM (2) to investigate the relationship between age and socio-economic status with writing apprehension (3) to discover the writing situation that make the Jordanian postgraduate students feel most apprehensive when writing in English (writing a thesis, writing assignments, or writing journals). This study used a survey research design. The sampling of this study consisted of one hundred and three Jordanian postgraduate students at UUM. The instrument used in this study was Writing Apprehension Test (WAT) developed by Daly and Miller (1975) to measure writing apprehension. The results of this study showed that majority of the Jordanian postgraduate students experienced high level of writing apprehension. There was a significant relationship between age, socio-economic status and writing apprehension. For the openended question, majority of the respondents said that they experienced apprehension in writing a thesis more than writing assignments, or writing journals.
Authors and Affiliations
Ibrahim Fathi Huwari, Noor Hashima Abd Aziz
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP97600
- DOI -
- Views 121
- Downloads 0
HIGH DROPOUT CONTRIBUTES TO LOW LITERACY RATE IN PAKISTAN: COMPARISON OF DROPOUT AT H.S.S.C AND COLLEGE LEVEL IN PAKISTAN
Despite strong emphasis of the education policies of successive governments to make education in grades XI and XII a part of 4-year secondary education, it continues to be offered in two separate streams i-e; in higher...
SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF CHILD HEALTH IN PAKISTAN
The present study uses the 2004-05 PSLM Survey to determine the economic, demographic, environmental and geographical factors of child morbidity among the sampled children. This sample is restricted to children under f...
The Impact of Palm Oil Plantation Development towards Income Disparity
West Kotawaringin Regency is development center of palm oil plantation business in Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. This business development will have impact on income disparity. The aim of this research is to es...
INFLUENCE OF SCHOOL TYPE AND LOCATION ON SCHOOL PLANT PLANNING IN SOUTH WEST NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
The study examined the influence school type and location on school plant planning in South West Nigerian secondary schools. A descriptive research of the survey design was used in the study. The sample consisted of 15...
FAMILY AND CULTURAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE LIFE OF BOYS LEAVING HOMES IN GUJRANWALA
In the present study, ‘runaway boys’ refers to those boys who spend at least one night outside from their home without the consent of their parents and have the age cohort of 11-19. This research aimed at to unearth th...