For years,
technical vocational colleges have increasingly placed great emphasis on the quality of English education. However, more and more English instructors and educators are concerned about the issue of how to arouse college students’ awareness and desire for enhancing their present English proficiency level. The subjects in this study were 60 second-grade students in Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology in the Tainan County during the 2009 academic year. The purpose of this study aims to investigate the effects of a task-based EFL instruction on the teaching and learning of writing. In data collection, the students’ writing tasks, along with the student responses to the questionnaires entitled The Scale of Writing Attitudes (SOWA) were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Based on the data analyses, the finding of the study indicated that almost 90% of the subjects enjoyed the task-based writing instruction and that they were willing to grasp more opportunities to learn writing in English.