Self Efficacy In Writing Scale (SWS)

Five factors which are content ,design ,unity ,accuracy, and punctuation were considered in this questionnaire .The reliability was also calculated. The scale was found to have Cronbachs Alpha reliability coefficient of 0.90.

3.3.3 Attitude towards Writing Questionnaire

It was consisted of 24 items .All of the items are in the likert scale shown in appendix B.The reliability of WAQ was also calculated through Cronbachs Alpha reliability coefficient and the result showed that the reliability of this instrument was 0.83.

3.3.4 Writing a short composition

The participants were asked to write a short composition on the selected topic . They started paragraph writing. To ensure the scorer reliability , apart from the researcher herself, two other teachers scored the essay. Both raters were English teachers of that school and the average of raters scores was taken to represent the students main score.

In order to grade the students writing ,a correction scheme was used. It was the ESL Writing Profiles (Jacobes et al, 1981) that was appeared in appendix C .This scale was based on five factors (content, organization, vocabulary ,language use and mechanic).Based on this scale, the raters scored the paragraphs .

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3.5 Procedures

There were two groups participated in this study. ;both of them were at the same level and age and the treatment of both groups were the same.

This study were conducted in 4 phases; at first a proficiency test was taken to have a homogeneous groups .Then the students were given 30 minutes to write a short composition on the selected topic .In the second phase ,the self efficacy questionnaires were distributed among the students and they were classified into high and low levels based on their sense of self efficacy.

After the instructional sessions a post test(post writing) were given to the students. The topic ;to some extent ,was similar to the previous one .It took 30 minutes .The compositions were graded according to ESL Writing Profiles(Jacobs et al,1981) by two raters. In this part inter-rater reliability was estimated to see how consistent the raters were in their judgments.

And in the fourth phase , attitude questionnaire were distributed among the students in order to see the correlations between variables