Abstract:
This study is carried out with the purpose of assessing the attitude, practices and challenges the students
face in writing EFL: The case of Tobba grade 11 secondary school, Gumay,woreda, Jimma zone, Oromia
region, Ethiopia. To attain this objective, 120 students (70 of them are male and 50 are female) were
selected randomly so that qualitative method is employed. The data was collected through questionnaire
and real hand writing of a student test. Then, the data gathered through these tools were organized and
analyzed using qualitative method. In order to create a holistic picture of these qualitative and quantitative
data, the researcher integrated and carefully discussed them all around subsequent thematic topics of the
study in relation to the research questions. The study identified the major attitudes: the flow of ideas in
coherence, unified and with cohesive devices by which some of them needs logical, chronological and
spatial orders; the problems are again:grammar,punctuation-capitalization,fullstop,comma,inverted
comma, quotation mark, semi colon, colon, hyphen, interjection and exclamation marks; the challenges
in: mechanics-spelling and hand writing.
