Efl Students Attude, Practice, and Challenges They Face In Learning Writing Skills: The Case Of Toba Preparatory and Secondary School

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.