THE EFFECTS OF WRITING APPREHENSION AMONG JORDANIAN PHD STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVES
IBRAHIM FATHI HUWARI *
Department of English Language and Literature, Zarqa University, Jordan
YASSER AL-SHBOUL
Salt College for Human Sciences, Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to discover writing apprehension experiences of Jordanian PhD students at Universiti Utara Malaysia. This study adopted a qualitative case study approach. The sampling of participant was done through purposive sampling in order to select information rich cases. The sampling strategy was homogeneous sampling to find the characteristics of the sub-group of the whole population. Data collection was done through interviewing Jordanian PhD students. Twenty one students were interviewed to get their perspectives on the writing apprehension phenomenon. The main objective was investigated: the effects of writing apprehension. In terms of the effects of writing apprehension, three main themes were found such as personal effect, social effect, and academic effect. The study concluded that writing apprehension is a prevalent phenomenon among the participants. All the participants expressed experiencing writing apprehension ranging from low, moderate or high level.
Keywords: Writing apprehension, effects of EFL writing apprehension, Jordanian postgraduate students