Difficulties facing tenth grade students at Irbid 1 st directorate of education in learning English writing skill from their teachers' perspectives

Abstract

Nibal Abdelkarim Mousa Malkawi

This study aimed at investigating the difficulties facing tenth grade students at Irbid 1st Directorate of Education in learning writing skill from their teachers' perspectives; it aims also to investigate the effect of teachers' gender, academic qualification, and experience on their perspectives. The sample of the study was selected purposefully. It consisted of (94) teachers, (32) male and (92) female teachers at Irbid 1st Directorate of Education. This sample was used to measure the difficulties facing students in writing skill and a questionnaire was distributed among them. The findings of the study indicated that there are no statistically significant differences at (= 0.05) in teachers' perspectives about the difficulties facing students in writing skill due to Gender variable. Results also showed that there are statistically significant differences at (= 0.05) in teachers' perspectives due to qualification variable in favor of Master Degree, there are statistically significant differences at (= 0.05) due to experience variable. To find out Multiple Comparisons differences post hoc test using Scheffe Method was conducted, results showed that there are statistically significant differences at (= 0.05) between Less than 5 years and 10 years or above in favor of 10 years or above.