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Hasnawati, E.Mujahidin, and Tanjung Hendri. "Analyzing Students' Difficulties in Writing English Essay." International Journal of Social Science And Human Research 06, no. 10 (2023): 5954–59. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8430958.

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Analyzing students' difficulties in writing essays is a valuable tool for educators to enhance their teaching methods, provide personalized support, and ultimately improve students' writing skills. It also allows educators to be responsive to the needs of their students and create a more effective and engaging English learning experience. This study investigates the quality of English essays written by college students. The research aims to understand the difficulties of students in writing English essays in particularly in writing opinion essay. A qualitative method approach was emplo
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Evi Rusmita Dewi Ratna Sari, Arin Inayah, and Sutami Dwi Lestari. "AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS AT THE SIXTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT IN PGRI UNIVERSITY OF BANYUWANGI." LUNAR 7, no. 2 (2023): 15–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.36526/ln.v7i2.3110.

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This research is analysis research on students’ difficulties in writing argumentative essays at the Sixth Semester of English Educational Department in PGRI University of Banyuwangi. The aims of this research was to find out the dominant of writing difficulties of the students’ difficultiesin writing argumentative essays on cognitive problems by Byrne (1988) and their causes by Graham and Harris in Glynn note this (2006). Using a purposive sample, students in the sixth-semester of the 2019/2020 academic year were selected as samples in this study. This study used a qualitative descriptive meth
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Nguyen, Huynh Trang, and Anh Khoa Le. "Second -Year English Majored Students' Perception of Possible Problems in Writing Essays." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 04, no. 11 (2021): 3284–91. https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v4-i11-30.

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To acquire a language, learners need to be skillful at the four skills namely: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Among them, writing is usually considered a complex skill to learn. This study is aimed to investigate the second-year English majored students’ perception of essay writing problems encountered and solutions to overcome these problems. The participants of this study are 44 second year English majored students at a public university in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, consisting of 32 females and 12 males. The data were collected by a questionnaire to explore the difficulti
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Febriani, Tri Nurilah. "“Writing is challenging”: factors contributing to undergraduate students’ difficulties in writing English essays." Erudita: Journal of English Language Teaching 2, no. 1 (2022): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.28918/erudita.v2i1.5441.

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Essay writing is one of writing skills that must be mastered by students especially college ones because they often get an assignment to write an essay. However, many students find it difficult when they are assigned to compose an essay. This research aims to investigate the difficulties in English essay writing and its factors. Framed in a narrative inquiry, 33 students and one lecturer volunteered to participate. Data were collected through open-ended questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis by Braun and Clarke. Study findings reveal that
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Nenotek, Seprianus A., Zuvyati A. Tlonaen, and Herry A. Manubulu. "Exploring University Students’ Difficulties in Writing English Academic Essay." AL-ISHLAH: Jurnal Pendidikan 14, no. 1 (2022): 909–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.35445/alishlah.v14i1.1352.

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Academic wiring is one of the essential skills in academic writing, and it is vital to support students' self-development through opinion writing, grant essay writing and others. This study explores students' difficulties in writing English academic essays and the dominant challenges by using a mix-method approach. The qualitative is used to collect data, while the quantitative is used to find the difficulty percentage—the data analysis uses indicators from Brown (1999). The sample of this study was 30 students in the fifth semester of the English Education Study Program at Universitas Kristen
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Ly, Thi Tra My1 Nguyen Thanh Hung, Thanh Hung Nguyen, Thi Tuyet Minh Nguyen, et al. "A Descriptive Study on the Difficulties that EFL Students Encounter in Writing Essays at a University in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam." International Journal of Social Science and Education Research Studies 04, no. 09 (2024): 1036–40. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13815585.

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Abstract : Nowadays, it goes without saying that English has become the most popular language in the world. However, a lot of English learners in Vietnam, especially in the Mekong Delta sub-region have to face serious problems in writing skills, especially essay writing. For this reason, the study was conducted to figure out common obstacles in writing English essays encountered by EFL sophomores. The research participants were 62 second-year students of English at a university who finished their essay-writing courses already. To achieve the desired aim of this study, the researcher combined b
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Mustafa, Bryar Murshid, and Mohammed Luqman Shahab. "Kurdish EFL Undergraduates’ Academic Writing: Discussing the Main Writing Difficulties and Potential Solutions." TESOL Today 1, no. 1 (2024): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.53898/tesol2024114.

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English as a Foreign Language (EFL) lecturers in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq (KRI) often report poor academic essay quality among Kurdish EFL undergraduates. The purpose of this study was therefore to determine the challenges and difficulties Kurdish English-majoring undergraduates encounter in their academic writing. Through writing 60 essays by the undergraduates in three public universities in KRI and interviewing 12 lecturers, we explored writing difficulties and potential suggestions to enhance undergraduates’ writing skills. We found that students made numerous grammatical, spelling, and
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Hikmah, Durratul, and Farrah Maulida Nadia Khoir. "Students’ Ability in Writing English Argumentative Essay." International Journal of English Education and Linguistics (IJoEEL) 5, no. 2 (2024): 272–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.33650/ijoeel.v5i2.7317.

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Learning to write has a significant impact on determining the ability and quality of students in academic activities. One form of essay featured in academic writing is the argumentative essay. Writing an argumentative essay leads students to explore their opinions or arguments to convince the reader. Nevertheless, some studies show that college students face some difficulties in writing argumentative essays. Hence, the purpose of this study was to investigate the students’ ability to write argumentative essays in terms of essay structure. A qualitative case was used in this study. The data was
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Uba, Sani Yantandu, and Nizar Mohammed Souidi. "Students’ Writing Difficulties in English for Business Classes in Dhofar University, Oman." International Journal of Higher Education 9, no. 2 (2020): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v9n3p86.

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This study investigates students’ writing difficulties of English for business classes and the possible factors that might cause such difficulties. A corpus of forty essays of forty undergraduates was compiled. We adopted a textography approach to study writing practices. The results of the textual analysis informed an administration of questionnaire to both the students and four faculty members. The results of the corpus analysis indicate that students had a lot of errors in spelling, grammar, and many of them were unable to write thesis statement, as well as topic sentences. Some students al
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Hameed, Wagma, Ghani Rahman, and Laraib Rahat. "Analysis of Critical Thinking Strategies and Problems Faced in English Academic Essays by Undergraduates of Professional Colleges in District Abbottabad." Global Social Sciences Review 10, no. I (2025): 230–41. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(x-i).20.

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This study seeks to examine the characters, difficulties, and challenges encountered by professional students in writing academic essays by exploring the strategies employed by undergraduates in writing academic essays. The sample comprised twenty students selected from four professional colleges located in Abbottabad. The research instruments utilized in this study consisted of a questionnaire about critical thinking strategies and English essay prompts written by the same students. A descriptive survey design was utilized for data collection. The statistical analysis was followed by qualitat
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Difficulties in writing English essays"

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Ahmed, Abdel Hamid Mohamed Abdel Hamid. "The EFL essay writing difficulties of Egyptian student teachers of English : implications for essay writing curriculum and instruction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/120146.

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The current study is conducted with the aim of investigating the essay writing difficulties of Egyptian student teachers of English. More specifically, it attempts to fulfil the following three aims: explore the focuses of teaching essay writing at one of the pioneering faculties of education in Egypt; investigate the different essay writing practices used by Egyptian essay writing teachers from teachers as well as their students’ perspectives; and identify the essay writing difficulties encountered by Egyptian student teachers of English at the concerned faculty of education from both student
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Solagha, Omta Zoi. "Writing Difficulties in the Swedish ESL-Classroom : How teachers of English deal with students’ writing difficulties." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för språkdidaktik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94207.

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This study covers a research within the area of writing difficulties in the ESL classroom (English as second language). This essay aims to look at teachers’ attitudes towards working with writing difficulties and also how teachers deal with this issue in the classroom. The data for this study was collected through the qualitative method; interviews and observations. The informants who participated in this study are English teachers, working in year 7-9. The observations were conducted during the informants’ lessons. Previous research has also been used in this study in order to establish the t
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Lumadi, Thabelo Zacharia. "Teaching strategies that teachers use to improve reading and writing in English as first additional language : case study." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1763.

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Thesis (M. Ed.) -- University of Limpopo, 2016<br>This study reflects on the teaching strategies that that teachers use to improve reading and writing in English FAL in the Acornhoek area of Mpumalanga Province. Since the study wanted to have an in-depth understanding of the strategies that teachers use to improve reading and writing, a qualitative methodology was used. It is within this methodology that a case study was adopted whereby three methods of data collection were used, namely: interviewing, observation and documents. Two schools were selected as sites for the study by means of purp
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Tuomey, Enda. "Discussing writing : peer feedback on writing essays in an online forum for learners of English." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2014. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/71540/.

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This case study investigated feedback, interaction, and knowledge creation in an asynchronous discussion forum in which learners of English provided peer feedback on short argument essays for the IELTS test, a gatekeeper English exam used for immigration or university entrance. Over eleven months, a small but active group of intermediate and advanced learners from many countries changed participation from seeking feedback to giving complex macro-level feedback on each other’s writing, changing their perceptions of peer editing and improving their own writing, while a much larger group engaged
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Tsiriotakis, Ioanna K. "Writing Difficulties and Feelings of Anxiety during the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language." Thesis, University of Crete (Greece), 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10857326.

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<p> The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of explicit, structured strategybased procedural facilitation in writing, fostering cognitive apprenticeship and selfregulation strategies, (Bereiter, and Scardamalia, 1987, Spantidakis, 2010) along with its effects on the anxiety levels of fifth and sixth grade English language learners studying at a mainstream primary school in Chania, Crete, Greece. Specifically, the current study examined whether structured instruction in writing and self-regulation strategies, guided by strategy-based procedural facilitation in writing, would
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Zghyer, Rima Nassar. "ARAB STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES WITH ENGLISH WRITING DURING THEIR TRANSITION TO THE UNITED STATES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/897.

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Many research studies have been conducted in Arab countries to examine the difficulties that Arab students encounter in learning English writing. Unfortunately, not much of that scholarship deals with the challenges that these second language learners face when they pursue degrees abroad. Furthermore, the earlier studies failed to include the students' views about their difficulties, the causes, and possible solutions. In an effort to fill the gap in our understanding of the problems Arab students face in learning to write in English, this study explores the experiences and perceptions of a s
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Strode, Derick Brandon. "Foreclosure and Other Essays." TopSCHOLAR®, 2012. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1228.

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My dad had early onset Alzheimer’s disease. I first knew something was wrong with him in 1995. He was 49 then, and I was just about to start the eighth grade. That’s the summer his company backed him into a corner and told him to quit or be fired. He had worked there 14 years. They said his behavior was changing, and they thought he was doing it on purpose. It took seven years to get an actual diagnosis. The doctors looked for everything. They just thought he was too young. I’ve relied on materials found in my parents’ house from those days. But I’ve also let my imagination run, and added some
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Grant, Sofia. "An Analysis of English Essays Written by Swedish Students." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23572.

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The aim of this study is to analyse essays written in English by Swedish pupils and to map the most common errors made in written communication. The grammatical features selected for the analysis are prepositions, articles, verb forms, subject-verb agreement and word order. Furthermore, the errors will be grouped and ranked according to the Obligatory Occasion Analysis not only to assess the pupils’ development but also to help the teachers to prepare for their lesson planning.
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Santos, Krystin. "AUTO-FEM: ESSAYS." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/72.

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Auto Fem: Essays is a nonfiction essay collection revolving around one young woman’s family and their relationship to the motors that accelerate familial bonds. Each motor-related essay brings readers deeper into the admiration of speed and the environment that surrounds it. The essays span from the author's childhood into adulthood, revealing the different ways a woman is sexualized within these subcultures. This sexualization leads to internal battles for the female participant that result in sometimes toxic eating habits and a complicated body image. The author provides a sometimes brutal,
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Mamo, Josianne. "Then the Cicadas Sang : a novel ; and, Two essays on translingual writing." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30637/.

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This thesis consists of two parts: a creative work and two critical essays on translingual writing. The creative component, Then the Cicadas Sang, is a novel set in 1940s Malta. It is a story about love and aspiration. As a teenage girl, Mari vouches she will do anything to leave the tiny island she lives on. Foreigners – the British who governed the island at the time – and books give her a glimpse of the world beyond her shores. But she craves for more, unaware of what she risks losing by chasing her dreams. The novel deals with how books shape our imagination, how the languages we speak giv
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Books on the topic "Difficulties in writing English essays"

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Raiesi, Noor M. Cross-cultural Pragmatic failure with specific reference to Baluchi speakers of English. University of Salford, 1989.

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Raiesi, Noor M. Cross-cultural pragmatic failure with specific reference to Baluchi speakers of English. University of Salford, 1989.

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Williams, Kate. Writing essays. Oxford Centre for Staff Development, 1995.

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Reason, Rea. Learning difficulties in reading and writing. NFER-Nelson, 1986.

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B, Donald Robert, ed. Writing clear essays. 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 1996.

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B, Donald Robert, ed. Writing clear essays. 2nd ed. Prentice-Hall, 1992.

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Gunning, Thomas G. Assessing and correcting reading and writing difficulties. 4th ed. Allyn & Bacon, 2009.

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1973-, Clark Heather, ed. Essays on writing. Pearson Longman, 2008.

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Erickson, M. H. Problems in writing essays. University of Birmingham, Educational Counselling Unit, 1988.

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Erickson, M. H. Problems in writing essays. University of Birmingham, Educational Counselling Unit, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "Difficulties in writing English essays"

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Knight, Kim. "Writing an English Essay." In Essay Writing for Adolescents with Language and Learning Difficulties. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003263401-5.

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Mabbett, I. W. "The Importance of Good English Expression." In Writing History Essays. Macmillan Education UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06061-7_14.

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Mabbett, Ian. "The Importance of Good English Expression." In Writing History Essays. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-54367-7_13.

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Du, Juan. "Chinese Engineers’ Writing Difficulties." In Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace. Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1983-3_4.

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Du, Juan. "Engineers’ Explanations of Writing Difficulties." In Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace. Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1983-3_5.

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Shuck, Emerson C. "Administration of the Freshman English Program." In Landmark Essays on Writing Program Administration. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003576891-3.

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Adrianty, Uchy Mukho, and Muhd Al Hafizh. "The Difficulties of EFL Graduate Students in Writing a Scientific Article." In Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2022). Atlantis Press SARL, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_21.

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Al Khalili, Tamara. "Changing Practices to Overcome Writing Difficulties in EFL Courses at University: A Lebanese Case Study." In The Assessment of L2 Written English across the MENA Region. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53254-3_12.

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Williams, Christopher. "Syntactic Complexity as an Indicator of Proficiency in Argumentative Essays." In Výzkum v didaktice cizích jazyků V. Masaryk University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p280-0310-2022-8.

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This article outlines three approaches to measuring the syntactic complexity in L2 English writing – mean length-based, distance dependency, and the use of non-finite elements. Studies using these approaches are discussed, and areas for future research are discussed.
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Khalil, Abdelhamid A., Emad A. S. Abu-Ayyash, and Sa’Ed M. I. Salhieh. "The Role of Lexical Cohesion in Improving Twelfth Graders’ Essay Writing Quality." In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27462-6_7.

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AbstractThe current study was conducted to examine the role of lexical cohesion in improving the quality of twelfth graders’ essay writing. The study specifically aimed at examining the correlation between lexical cohesive devices (LCD) and the quality of written texts as well as investigating the barriers of employing these devices for twelfth graders. The context was a private American curriculum school in the UAE. The present paper adopted the quantitative correlational and the quantitative survey research approaches. Data were collected using document analysis of 30 twelfth graders’ essays
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Conference papers on the topic "Difficulties in writing English essays"

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Surahman, Ade. "Analysis of Fifth Grade Elementary School Students’ Difficulties in Writing Essays." In Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021). Atlantis Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211119.001.

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Elfiyanto, Sonny. "The Effect of Peer Assessment on Students’ Performance in Writing Narrative Essays." In International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2019). Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200427.017.

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Cai-ying, Wang, and Huang Huai-fei. "On Applying Blended Learning to Writing for English Argumentative Essays for Chinese Undergraduates." In ICIET 2020: 2020 8th International Conference on Information and Education Technology. ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3395245.3396436.

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Lama, Alma. "Developing English writing skills for students with specific learning difficulties." In University for Business and Technology International Conference. University for Business and Technology, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.123.

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Thao, Vo Thi Thu. "HUFI English-majored Students’ Perceptions of Peer Correction in Essay Writing." In 5th Conference on Language Teaching and Learning. AIJR Publisher, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/proceedings.150.4.

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Writing essays can be a challenging task for many English-major students, and developing writing skills can be a difficult process. To address this issue, several studies have explored ways to enhance students’ writing performance. This paper aimed to explore how peer correction was used in classrooms to improve English essay writing skills among English major freshmen at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, in the University of Food Industry, Ho Chi Minh City. This case study collected data through class observations and student interviews using a qualitative approach. The results indicated that
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Arifanita, Dhevi, Joko Nurkamto, and Suparno Suparno. "Investigating the Writing Difficulties on Indonesian Second Language Students in Learning English." In Proceedings of the 3rd English Language and Literature International Conference, ELLiC, 27th April 2019, Semarang, Indonesia. EAI, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2285348.

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Turmudi, Dedi. "Design-Based of FBFRP-Technique in Writing Computerized English Essays in the Light of CTL Method." In Proceedings of the 2nd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, BIS-HSS 2020, 18 November 2020, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. EAI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.18-11-2020.2311798.

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Pacheco, Rafael, Luiz Rodrigues, Lucas Lins, et al. "Automated Thematic Coherence Scoring of Student Essays Written in Portuguese." In Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/sbie.2023.233447.

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While Thematic Coherence is a fundamental aspect of essay writing, scoring it is labor-intensive. This issue is often addressed using machine learning algorithms to estimate the score. However, related work is mostly limited to the English language or argumentative essays. Consequently, there is a lack of research on other widely used languages and essay types, such as Brazilian Portuguese and narrative essays. Hence, this paper reports on the findings of a study that aimed to evaluate the value of machine learning algorithms to automatically score the Thematic Coherence of both narratives (n
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Gui, Zhixin, Duoduo Zhang, Yiming Bai, and J. Ouyang. "Does the Automated Essay Scoring System Reduce Motivation to Learn English Writing? A Case Study of Chinese College Students." In 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023). AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003227.

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Artificial intelligence technology has given rise to the Automated Essay Scoring (AES) system, which has greatly reduced the workload of English teachers. It can give overall scores, error feedback and writing suggestions in seconds, after students have uploaded their English essays. In China, the most widely used AES system is called Pigai, which has been shown to help improve English writing skills, but has caused resistance from some students who believe it reduces motivation and creativity in English writing. Using a case study approach, this study investigated 29 Chinese English learners
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Catana, Elisabeta simona. "ENHANCING THE ENGINEERING STUDENTS' ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS IN ENGLISH THROUGH E-LEARNING INCENTIVES." In eLSE 2017. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-17-210.

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In the Age of fierce competition in the job market for companies and multinationals, engineering students do not only have to demonstrate their specialised knowledge of the field they will work in, but should also enhance and exhibit their oral and written communication skills, their fluency and accuracy in an international language of communication such as English. That is why this paper will focus on the importance of e-learning for developing the engineering students’ academic writing skills in the English language courses and seminars in a technical university. The paper evinces the necess
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