[Writing apprehension among English majors students at Palestinian Universities] : [causes and solutions]

Abstract EN

The current research attempted to investigate writing apprehension causes among Palestinian university English majors and provide possible solutions.

The researchers designed two questionnaires ; the first covers possible causes of writing apprehension whereas the second tackles the effective solutions for this problem.

The study sample consisted of (265) students.

The researchers used t-test paired sample, one way ANOVA and Sheffe test.

The study concluded the following : (1) gender and academic level were not significant variables in students' estimates of the causes of writing apprehension (2) the academic institution variable affected the subjects estimates of the causes and remedies of the writing apprehension (3) high achievers were more apprehensive than low achievers.