Teachers’ and students’ perceptions about the role of brainstorming writing strategies in learners’ writing performance : the case of teachers at Kadi Athman secondary school in Tichy- Bejaia and third year foreignlanguage class

Abstract

This study describes teachers’ and students’ perceptions about brainstorming as a pre-writing technique to enhance learners’ writing performance. A descriptive research with mixed methods, both qualitative and quantitative, is adopted to answer the following questions: 1) Do EFL teachers make students practise the brainstorming phase when teaching writing? If yes, what are the different brainstorming writing strategies they use? 2) How can brainstorming enhance the EFL learners’ writing performance? A case of 29 third year foreign languages stream students of Kadi Athman secondary school in Tichy-Bejaia, and five EFL teachers who teach there during the academic year 2016-2017 is studied. Teachers’ interview and students’ questionnaire as research instruments are used to answer the research questions and to reach the research aims...