Writing Strategies of Tunisian University EFL Learners

Managing to communicate one’s thoughts and ideas coherently and fluently remains a challenging task for native and non-native student writers alike. This challenge corresponds to the very nature of the writing act, which calls upon multiple and sophisticated cognitive operations. The major aim of this study was to investigate the writing strategies and attitudes of a cohort of Tunisian first year Arts students and composition teachers and detect areas of mismatch between the learning preferences of the students and the teaching practices of the instructors. The study was carried out via a writing strategies questionnaire for teachers and another questionnaire for students.