THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WRITING PROCESSES AND WRITING APPREHENSION AMONG ARAB STUDENTS

Abstract

Writing in English language considers one of the most important sources to express thoughts. Furthermore, it needs from the second language speaker to be excellent either in vocabularies or how to make sentences grammatically and meaningfully correct. From long experience in teaching field, it is approved that Arab students of high studies from University Utara Malaysia faces problems in how to transfer student's ideas in written words. And from this research, it is checked out by using a questionnaire that depends on first; Are all the three main writing processes which are before writing an essay (planning), when writing in English (composing), after writing (revising) applied in writing. Second; Are the three main writing processes have a relationship with writing apprehension. As the results approved that the three writing processes are not followed by the ELPT Arab students during the examination and this case makes the students more apprehensive. In addition to that there are no statistical differences between the writing processes and writing apprehension. The findings of this study have further implication in order to seek for ways to improve the writing of the students by following the writing processes and are trying to reduce the size of writing apprehension during the test.