Abstract:
This study aims at investigating secondary school pupils’ and teachers’
attitudes towards writing in English. The subjects of the study were 151 pupils
and 30 teachers from different schools. Some of the study objectives are that
this research attempts to shed lights on the importance of attitudes of EFL
pupils towards writing in English. It also investigates the difficulties and
problems of teaching writing in secondary schools and whether writing
activities which provided in the English syllabus in secondary level are not
adequate enough to develop writing. The research adopted the descriptive
analytical method in order to investigate their attitudes towards writing in
English, four instruments were used for data collection. A questionnaire for the
teachers, another one for the pupils, textbook analysis and classroom
observations. The main findings of the study show that the pupils’ attitude
towards writing is negatively affected by the way through which the writing
materials within the SPINE series are selected, graded and designed. Based on
these results, the study recommends that there is a need for further refining of
the writing activities in SPINE and incorporation of authentic materials,
particularly, materials for developing, selecting and grading the contents of
writing materials. Also, SPINE series should be carefully designed by different
specialist such as psychologists, language specialists and educationalists.
