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Abstract The current study aimed at investigating the effect of a suggested program based on Self-Regulated Strategy Development model on developing students’ overall functional writing skill and sub-skills (format, organization, content, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics) in some identified functional writing fields (writing letter, e-mail, report, memo, article and summary), and on promoting their functional writing attitudes. An experimental group consisted of thirty students at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Al-Azhar University - Gaza was the Participants of the study. Two checklists for determining the required functional writing skills and fields, pre-post functional writing tests, a writing attitude scale, a social validity questionnaire, and correction rubrics, validated by a panel of jury, were administered to achieve the study aim. The suggested program lasted for sixteen sessions of two hours each. Results showed that the post-test mean scores of the experimental group revealed large effects size of the suggested program on developing students’ overall functional writing skill and sub-skills. Besides, analyzing the attitudes scale revealed large effect of the program on promoting functional writing attitudes. Moreover, the qualitative analysis showed students’ positive attitudes towards the program. Key words: Self-Regulated Strategy Development, Functional Writing, Writing Attitudes. |