Ben sayeh Chahra2024-03-022024-03-022018http://dspace.univ-khenchela.dz:4000/handle/123456789/2938Abstract Writing is one of the productive skills which is difficult to acquire for EFL learners. The aim of this study is to investigate the EFL students’ attitudes towards brainstorming as pre-writing stage to improve the writing process. Also, it aims at examining the effect of the writing process, and more precisely the brainstorming stage on the students’ writing performance. Moreover, the main goal of this work is to increase many opportunities for EFL students to write using the brainstorming stage.in this research we opted for a descriptive method in this research. A questionnaire is dispatched for second year LMD students of English and an interview is administered to teachers of written expression course at the University of ABBES LAGHROUR. The findings showed that the brainstorming stage play an important role in developing the EFL students written production. It helps execute creative ideas which help them to overcome the difficulties they may face when they write. Therefore, it can be marked that both teachers and students believe that the target EFL students improve their writing skill through brainstorming stage.enThesis