Candidates of Written Language Disabilities Among Undergraduate Students at the University of Jordan as Perceived by Students and Their Teachers
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This study aimed to explore writing problems among undergraduate students at the university level,based on students self reporting technique and the verification from their teachers’ ratings. Twenty-eight students were considered good candidates for this research using two criteria of self reporting and high means of responses. Twenty- five faculty members teaching the previous sample were asked to fill in a similar survey conveying the current level of writing for the selected student. Results revealed four categories of handwriting problem; handwriting,sentence structure,vocabulary and spelling,and written expression. In addition,high agreement of written language problems from the perspective of both students and faculty members were also observed. A discussion of the results and implications for written language problems at the University of Jordan are provided.