Exploring repeating students' feelings and attitudes towards learning esl writing

In ESL writing classes or courses, we often observe students struggling to learn the writing skills. Some students even fail the same writing course repeatedly. Failing and repeating the same writing course will certainly affect the repeaters in several aspects. Hence, this study sought to explo...

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Main Authors:	Ahmed, Ismail Sheikh Yusuf, Kassim, Rosnani, Zubairi, Ainol Madziah
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) 2017
Subjects:	L Education (General)
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spelling	iium-635582018-07-11T01:48:26Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/63558/ Exploring repeating students' feelings and attitudes towards learning esl writing Ahmed, Ismail Sheikh Yusuf Kassim, Rosnani Zubairi, Ainol Madziah L Education (General) In ESL writing classes or courses, we often observe students struggling to learn the writing skills. Some students even fail the same writing course repeatedly. Failing and repeating the same writing course will certainly affect the repeaters in several aspects. Hence, this study sought to explore the feelings and attitudes of these students who were repeaters in learning writing in a pre-sessional English course at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Based on semi-structured interviews with the repeaters and their writing instructors, it was revealed that the repeaters had some negative feelings and attitudes, namely feeling uncertain with one’s own ability, lacking motivation, suffering from anxiety and having poor relationship with their teachers. This paper further discussed these negative feelings and attitudes in light of scholarly thoughts of past and contemporary Muslim scholars to shed some light on aspects that are essential in ensuring successful language learning for repeating student, particularly in relation to their feelings and attitudes towards learning English writing skills. This study has major significance especially in enabling writing instructors to understand the repeaters better and to help them develop positive attitudes towards learning writing in English. The pedagogical implications and recommendations are also discussed. International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63558/1/63558_Exploring%20repeating%20students%27%20feelings%20and%20attitudes%20towards%20learning%20esl%20writing_article.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63558/2/63558_Exploring%20repeating%20students%27%20feelings%20and%20attitudes%20towards%20learning%20esl%20writing_scopus.pdf Ahmed, Ismail Sheikh Yusuf and Kassim, Rosnani and Zubairi, Ainol Madziah (2017) Exploring repeating students' feelings and attitudes towards learning esl writing. Al-Shajarah, Special Issue. pp. 33-49. ISSN 1394-6870 http://journals.iium.edu.my/shajarah/index.php/shaj/issue/view/47
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description	In ESL writing classes or courses, we often observe students struggling to learn the writing skills. Some students even fail the same writing course repeatedly. Failing and repeating the same writing course will certainly affect the repeaters in several aspects. Hence, this study sought to explore the feelings and attitudes of these students who were repeaters in learning writing in a pre-sessional English course at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Based on semi-structured interviews with the repeaters and their writing instructors, it was revealed that the repeaters had some negative feelings and attitudes, namely feeling uncertain with one’s own ability, lacking motivation, suffering from anxiety and having poor relationship with their teachers. This paper further discussed these negative feelings and attitudes in light of scholarly thoughts of past and contemporary Muslim scholars to shed some light on aspects that are essential in ensuring successful language learning for repeating student, particularly in relation to their feelings and attitudes towards learning English writing skills. This study has major significance especially in enabling writing instructors to understand the repeaters better and to help them develop positive attitudes towards learning writing in English. The pedagogical implications and recommendations are also discussed.
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author	Ahmed, Ismail Sheikh Yusuf Kassim, Rosnani Zubairi, Ainol Madziah
author_facet	Ahmed, Ismail Sheikh Yusuf Kassim, Rosnani Zubairi, Ainol Madziah
author_sort	Ahmed, Ismail Sheikh Yusuf
title	Exploring repeating students' feelings and attitudes towards learning esl writing
title_short	Exploring repeating students' feelings and attitudes towards learning esl writing
title_full	Exploring repeating students' feelings and attitudes towards learning esl writing
title_fullStr	Exploring repeating students' feelings and attitudes towards learning esl writing
title_full_unstemmed	Exploring repeating students' feelings and attitudes towards learning esl writing
title_sort	exploring repeating students' feelings and attitudes towards learning esl writing
publisher	International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
publishDate	2017
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