Exploring the Writing Process of Libyan EFL Students at Faculty of Education –Janzour

Abstract

Writing is considered one of the most complex skills for both English teachers and learners. Thus, the three stages of the writing process (pre-writing, while writing, and post-writing) play a vital role in producing a good writing outcome and eliminating the writing difficulties that will be confrontedby EFL learners. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the writing process in writing the essay that was used by Libyan EFL university studentsat the Faculty of Education- Janzour, University of Tripoli. The participants were81 students majoring in the English language who enrolledin the fourth semester of the academic year (2016-2017). The data was gained from the writing process questionnaire which was adapted from Al_Sawalha and Chow (2012). The results indicated that the writing strategies were not frequently used by Libyan students at the Faculty of Education –Janzour. The results also showed the most frequent process writing strategies by the participants were at the writing drafting stage.