Efl Students’ Attitude Towards Writing In Higher Education: A Survey Study
Abstract
The purpose of the study is to identify the attitudes of EFL Students towards writing
skills in Higher Education. The research design of this research is quantitative
research with a survey study method. This research uses Writing Apprehension
Questionnaire (WAQ) from Ismail (2011) this instrument consisted of 4 domains
with 28 items. There were 42 students involved in this research as respondents.
They were selected with a purposive sampling from the English Education
Department in one private university in Yogyakarta. All respondents were final year
students who have completed all EFL writing courses in the department. The result
shows the highest score refers to the statement “Semua kelas menulis EFL yang
saya ikuti adalah mata kuliah yang menantang.” (mean = 4,16. STD = 0,72) It means
students consider writing as one of the challenging subjects in their study.
Meanwhile, the lowest score is the statement “Saya tidak berlatih menulis dalam
bahasa Inggris karena itu tidak terlalu penting untuk studi akademis saya.” (mean=
2,02. STD = 1,02) The result indicates that students think that practicing writing is
important to support their study.