Volume 12, Issue 1, November 2014, Pages 135–147
Dr. Zeleke Arficho Ayele1
1 Hawassa University, P. O. Box 05, Hawassa, Ethiopia
Original language: English
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This study was intended to examine the correlation between students' attitude towards leaning writing lessons through receiving training on the learning strategies of writing and their writing performance to discuss relevant contents, organize contents appropriately and use accurate grammar, appropriate vocabulary and correct mechanics. To this end, the selected Year-I students of Hawassa University were taught lessons of the Basic Writing Skills course with training in the strategies. At the end of the program, the students were made to fill in a five-point scale questionnaire intended to explore their attitude towards receiving training in the strategies, and to take a writing test. The correlations were examined through the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (r). To determine the strength of a correlation, the cut-off points suggested by Cohen were applied. Moreover, the coefficient of determination was computed to see the extent to which the students' attitude towards receiving training on the strategies predicts their writing performance. Thus, this research employed a quantitative-methods design. The Pearson r demonstrated that there was a strong positive correlation between the students' attitude towards leaning the writing lessons through receiving training on the strategies and their writing performance on each of the aspects of writing (r-values > .766; p-value = .000)). The coefficient of determination also revealed that the students' attitude towards receiving training on the strategies predicts their writing performance at above 58%. Based on the findings, recommendations have been made.
Author Keywords: attitude, receiving training, learning strategies of writing, correlation, writing performance.
Dr. Zeleke Arficho Ayele1
1 Hawassa University, P. O. Box 05, Hawassa, Ethiopia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This study was intended to examine the correlation between students' attitude towards leaning writing lessons through receiving training on the learning strategies of writing and their writing performance to discuss relevant contents, organize contents appropriately and use accurate grammar, appropriate vocabulary and correct mechanics. To this end, the selected Year-I students of Hawassa University were taught lessons of the Basic Writing Skills course with training in the strategies. At the end of the program, the students were made to fill in a five-point scale questionnaire intended to explore their attitude towards receiving training in the strategies, and to take a writing test. The correlations were examined through the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (r). To determine the strength of a correlation, the cut-off points suggested by Cohen were applied. Moreover, the coefficient of determination was computed to see the extent to which the students' attitude towards receiving training on the strategies predicts their writing performance. Thus, this research employed a quantitative-methods design. The Pearson r demonstrated that there was a strong positive correlation between the students' attitude towards leaning the writing lessons through receiving training on the strategies and their writing performance on each of the aspects of writing (r-values > .766; p-value = .000)). The coefficient of determination also revealed that the students' attitude towards receiving training on the strategies predicts their writing performance at above 58%. Based on the findings, recommendations have been made.
Author Keywords: attitude, receiving training, learning strategies of writing, correlation, writing performance.
How to Cite this Article
Dr. Zeleke Arficho Ayele, “Students' Attitude towards Receiving Training in Learning Strategies of Writing vs. their Writing Performance: The Case of Hawassa University Students,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 135–147, November 2014.
