Teachers' Opinions on Students' Writing Anxiety and Dispositions

Writing anxiety is one of the factors that negatively affect writing education prevents students' writing skill development. writing tendency is defined as the rate of the use of the skill with interest and desire. therefore, the acquisition, development and habit of writing skills are related to writing anxiety, in addition to writing disposition. this study aims to determine the opinions of turkish teachers about the writing anxiety and tendencies of students. in this qualitative, phenomenological study, data were analyzed by content analysis method. the study group was determined on a voluntary basis using the progressive and purposive sampling method and consisted of 12 turkish teachers working in elazığ city center. in the face-to-face interviews a semi-structured interview form which was developed by the researchers was used, and the tabulated results according to the frequency distributions was interpreted according to the literature. findings showed that teachers, family and peer attitudes, methods and techniques used, self-confidence, education system and text type could be effective in writing anxiety and disposition levels. in conclusion, students' tendencies to write decrease as writing anxiety increases.