Analysis of Some Factors Responsible for the Learners’ Underachievement in Writing in English The case of the Second YearForeign Languages Classes at BarikaSecondary Schools.

Abstract

This study aim at providing further proofs about the problem of writing English within our pupils . Therefore , it intends to investigate some factors relative to the subject matter , context and psychology of the learner suspected of having an influence on the pupils’ inability to write well in English . We have followed a descriptive method to approach this issue as we believe it a problem to pupils of the 2.A.S foreign language classes at Barika secondary schools and reported our study in a thesis of two parts. Part One is a theoretical framework where important facts related to the problem of writing and the factors causing relative weakness are discussed . The discussion of those elements , as highlighted , in the relative literature , served us to get clear insights on the possible cause effect relationship between the pupils’ production in the foreign language and their pedagogical , contextual and psychological considerations . Part Two present the empirical research results we have conducted . The analysis of the learners’ writing performances reveal that indeed pupils at secondary school levels are still not aware of the foreign languages’ specificities and properties and that this state of incompetency affects outstandingly their output . Their responses , as well as their teachers ones came to confirm this and added that this problem really exists but its solution does not seem consistent .