Investigating Students’ Procrastination in EFL Writing

Abstract

The present research work attempted to investigate students’ procrastination in EFL writing by quantifying the extent to which they delay their writing tasks and identifying the common factors contributing to this behaviour. It also sought to shed light on some possible solutions to overcome this problem. This descriptive study involved 74 third-year students and their teachers of Written Expression at the Department of English, University of Jijel. The quantitative approach was adopted in this study and the data were collected using two questionnaires. The student questionnaire contained an adapted version of the Tuckman Procrastination Scale (1991). The Tuckman Procrastination Scale was mainly employed for assessing academic procrastination in general, but it was altered in the student questionnaire to particularly measure procrastination in writing