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.