The Relationship between Secondary School Students’ Writing Attitudes and Anxiety and Writing Disposition

Abstract

Literacy is an important result of language teaching. Language skills are like the pieces of a whole. The accurate acquisition of these skills, which are needed to be used effectively by individuals both in their social and educational life, is equally valuable. Writing is a skill that is acquired and developed mostly during the learning process among these skills. Writing requires not only recognizing the letters and language rules but also understanding and internalizing oneself and the environment. Therefore, emotions, opinions and experiences regarding this skill should be emphasized. The aim of this study is to review the relationship between secondary school students’ writing attitudes and anxieties, and writing dispositions. The study group of the study included secondary school students who were randomly selected in the center of Kars, Turkey in the 2019-2020 academic year. Data were collected using “the Attitude Scale towards Writing for Secondary School Students”, “the Writing Disposition Scale”, and “the Writing Anxiety Scale for secondary school Students”. The results showed that secondary school students’ writing attitudes, dispositions and anxieties did not produce a significant difference based on the variable of gender.

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