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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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Haji, Nawzar. "Major Writing Difficulties Faced by Kurdish Learners of EFL in Academic Writing Classes." Twejer 5, no. 1 (2022): 1211–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.31918/twejer.2251.27.

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Abstract Writing in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) contexts has been claimed to be one of the most challenging tasks required from EFL learners. Many Kurdish learners of EFL face difficulties producing well-developed paragraphs and essays in their courses of study in higher education. This study aims at investigating such difficulties that could hinder students’ overall progress and success. A mixed-method research design was used to explore the issue under investigation fully. The data collection tools used are a (5-point Likert Scale) questionnaire and semi-structured in-depth interview
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Zhu, Wei. "Performing Argumentative Writing in English: Difficulties, Processes, and Strategies." TESL Canada Journal 19, no. 1 (2001): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18806/tesl.v19i1.918.

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Argumentative writing constitutes an important part of second-language learners' academic writing experience in North America. This study examined the difficulties a group of Mexican graduate students encountered when engaged in an argumentative writing task as well as their writing processes and strategies. Data were collected from individual interviews with the participants and from participants' written essays. Data analysis indicated that most participants perceived the rhetorical aspects of English argumentative writing as difficult. Data analysis also indicated that participants mainly u
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Khalil, Abdelhamid A., and Emad A. S. Abu-Ayyash. "Lexical Cohesive Devices and English Writing Quality." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS 14 (October 5, 2023): 7–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jal.v14i.9534.

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This mixed-methods study investigated the use of lexical cohesive devices (LCD) for 56 Arab English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in the UAE. The quantitative descriptive approach was used to find out the frequency of LCD in learners’ essays, and the quantitative correlational approach was implemented to examine the association between LCD and the writing quality. However, the qualitative descriptive approach utilized semi-structured interviews of 4 EFL teachers and 15 EFL learners to identify the challenges that they encountered regarding using LCD in essay writing. The findings demons
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Oeun, Saem, and Kimkong Heng. "Challenges Cambodian Students Face in English Essay Writing: A Literature Review." Journal of Education Research 6, no. 2 (2025): 473–84. https://doi.org/10.37985/jer.v6i2.2476.

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English essay writing is a key productive skill that plays a critical role in students’ academic achievement, in both national and international examinations. In Cambodia, many students, especially high school students, struggle with the English subject, often resulting in poor performance or failure in national exams. This article aims to discuss the key challenges Cambodian students face in writing English essays and proposes strategies to enhance their performance in essay writing. Based on a review of secondary sources, the article identifies several major challenges, including students’ p
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Farooqui, Afnan. "Writing Assignments Difficulties, Factors, and Solutions: ESL Teachers’ Perspectives." Arab World English Journal 14, no. 4 (2023): 358–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol14no4.22.

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Writing assignments have been considered challenging for English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Several studies have investigated writing difficulties, primarily focusing on lexical and grammatical problems. However, few studies have explored challenges at various stages of writing. This research examines teachers’ views on the challenges ESL tertiary students face when writing descriptive essays in the three primary stages: pre-writing, during writing, and post-writing. It also explores the factors contributing to these challenges and provides suggestions for overcoming them. Explanator
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Lisdwiana Kurniati and Wanawir Abdul Muin. "The Effect of Learning Strategy and Critical Thinking Ability on English Essay Writing Skills." International Journal of Educational Research Excellence (IJERE) 1, no. 2 (2022): 206–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.55299/ijere.v1i2.253.

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The Informatics Engineering Study Program at Mitra Karya University Bekasi has two English courses given in semesters 1 and 3. In semester I, students study English which is directed at understanding grammatical and vocabulary in the field of Informatics Engineering. Students must be able to write a minimum of three paragraphs about their field. Learning to write essays is also aimed at mastering thesis abstract writing. Writing is one aspect of productive language skills. For this reason, the principle of teaching writing is how to make students have sufficient competence in an effort to prod
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Elkhayma, Rachid. "Moroccan Students’ Writing Difficulties." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 8, no. 1 (2020): 09–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol8.iss1.1537.

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This study aims at investigating and identifying cohesion and coherence problems that Moroccan 2nd-year baccalaureate students encounter in written discourse. An overall number of thirty students from two fields of study (Math Sciences and Economics) participated in the study, producing a total number of thirty essays. Students’ application of cohesion and coherence were studied and analyzed based on Halliday and Hasan’s Cohesion in English (1976) and Oshima and Hogue’s (2006) criteria for achieving coherence. Regarding the analysis of the corpus, it was discovered that students tend to use mo
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Purba, Rachel Gisela, and Susana Teopilus. "“I GOT STUCK NOT ONLY IN THE FIRST ESSAY”: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY ON STUDENTS’ WRITING DIFFICULTIES." Magister Scientiae 51, no. 1 (2023): 13–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.33508/mgs.v51i1.4522.

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Writing, one of the language skills, seems to be the most difficult skill for students to master. There are five aspects used to evaluate students’ writing abilities: content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics. This current narrative inquiry research aims to find out students’ difficulties in writing expository essays, the factors that cause them to have difficulties, and the strategies they use to overcome them. The data of this research were taken from the students taking Writing Expository and Argumentative Essays course in the English Department of Widya Mandala Surabay
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Agustin, Ratna, and Sri Wulandari. "THE ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS ON STUDENTS’ ESSAY WRITING BY USING GRAMMARLY." Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Proficiency 4, no. 1 (2022): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.32503/proficiency.v4i1.2247.

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Considering the importance of grammar knowledge in the process of writing essays to students, the researchers aimed to research and explain the grammar errors in the essays of students of the English Department at UNISKA Kediri. The research study is classified into qualitative study. The study analyzed 14 samples English Essays written by UNISKA students. To classify the different types of errors made by students and identify common errors in writing student essays are using triangulation method. The results of this research found types of grammatical errors in the students' essays consist of
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Anindita, Widyashanti Kunthara. "Cohesion and Coherence Problems Among Non-Native English Students’ Writing Essays." Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya 14, no. 1 (2024): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.26714/lensa.14.1.2024.58-79.

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In order to properly organize ideas and express significant information, non-native students sometimes struggle with cohesion and coherence in their essays. This study examines the body of literature to pinpoint frequent problems non-native writers have while trying to make their writing coherent and cohesive. This study aims to assess the literature on cohesion and coherence issues in essays written by non-native students, with a particular focus on a number of components, including referential and relational coherence, theme and rheme, and grammatical and lexical cohesion. The literature stu
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Fitrawati, Fitrawati, and Dian Safitri. "Students' Grammatical Errors in Essay Writing: A Pedagogical Grammar Reflection." International Journal of Language Education 5, no. 2 (2021): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.26858/ijole.v5i2.16128.

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Students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are expected to master the fundamental of grammar so they can produce good essays. However, despite having learnt English at secondary or university level, students tend to make many grammatical errors in their writing. This study presents the grammatical errors made by college EFL students in their essays and the pedagogical implications viewed from those errors. This is a descriptive research with 30 second-year students who enrolled Essay Writing class as participants. Thirty written essays produced by the students were analyzed for the gramma
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Ado, Mohammed Ahmed, and Mohammad Othman Ahmad Alsheyab. "Level of Knowledge Awareness and Use of Planning as Writing Strategy by EFL International Students in UUM English Intensive Course." Journal of English Language Teaching and Linguistics 4, no. 3 (2019): 319. http://dx.doi.org/10.21462/jeltl.v4i3.318.

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<em>Malaysian English Language Curriculum makes it compulsory for every newly intake student to master and pass the English Writing Tasks (EWT) as among the basic skills in the language learning processes. However, most of the English Foreign Language (EFL) international students face difficulties with the EWT during the English Intensive Course (EIC) leading to consistent mass failures. The possible reasons of these failures could be due to the neglect of the writing strategies. Hence, the central focus of this paper is to identify and determine the EFL international students’ level of
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Haji, Nawzar. "Major Writing Difficulties Faced by Kurdish Learners of EFL in Academic Writing Classes." Twejer 7, no. 1 (2024): 1230–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.31918/twejer.2471.46.

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Writing in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) contexts has been claimed to be one of the most challenging tasks required from EFL learners. Many Kurdish learners of EFL face difficulties producing well-developed paragraphs and essays in their courses of study in higher education. This study aims at investigating such difficulties that could hinder students’ overall progress and success. A mixed-method research design was used to explore the issue under investigation fully. The data collection tools used is a (5-point Likert Scale) questionnaire and semi-structured in-depth interviews. Two hun
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Sakkir, Geminastiti, Syarifuddin Dollah, and Rini Isnaeni Sakkir. "The Challenges of New Students of Universitas Negeri Makassar (UNM) in Essay Writing." ARRUS Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 4, no. 4 (2024): 548–55. https://doi.org/10.35877/soshum2968.

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This research investigates the challenges faced by new students of the English Language Education Study Program at Universitas Negeri Makassar (UNM) in writing essays. Writing is a complex skill that involves the organization of ideas, proper use of grammar, and clarity of expression. New students often struggle with various aspects of essay writing, which can hinder their academic progress. The study employs a qualitative research approach, focusing on 142 students from the second semester of the 2023/2024 academic year. Data was collected through interviews and analyzed descriptively. The fi
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Alhusaiyan, Eman A. "Ideational Metaphor in Saudi EFL Students’ Academic Writing: A Systemic-Functional Linguistic Analysis." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 14, no. 5 (2023): 1255–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1405.13.

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Over the past decade, there has been an upsurge in studies on the quality of EFL students' English academic writing. However, research on grammatical metaphors in academic writing by EFL students is limited. As such, the purpose of this research is to identify the occurrences of ideational metaphors in students' academic writing essays. In this research, the qualitative descriptive approach was applied. This study included 20 undergraduate students from the English Language and Literature Department at the College of Science and Humanities in Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia, Essay Writing cour
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Kurniasari, Yasti, Tina Priyantin, and Yanti Suryanti. "STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING ADJECTIVE PHRASES." Pedagonal : Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan 3, no. 2 (2019): 18–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.33751/pedagog.v3i2.1304.

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ABSTRACTStudents of EFL countries find it difficult to break down their ideas from their native language into English, and one of the difficulties is related to conduct adjective phrases. The objective of this research is to discover kinds of difficulties that students face in writing adjective phrases. Qualitative research is applied in order to explain the problem more specifically and descriptive method is employed to maintain alongside the approach used. Triangulation data turn to be the instruments which include documentation, questionnaire distribution and semi-structured interview. The
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Budjalemba, Algrenita Silvina, and Listyani Listyani. "FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO STUDENTS DIFFICULTIES IN ACADEMIC WRITING CLASS: STUDENTS PERCEPTIONS." UC Journal: ELT, Linguistics and Literature Journal 1, no. 2 (2020): 135–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/uc.v1i2.2966.

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Writing is one of the most difficult skills in learning English as a Second Language (ESL) or English Foreign Language (EFL). Many language learners encountered difficulties from the writing process. At the tertiary level, students are required to produce academic essays, which are difficult and may frustrate students. The purpose of this study was to analyze factors contributing to students difficulties in an Academic Writing course based on the students perceptions. This study used a qualitative method. The instruments used were open-ended questionnaires and interview protocol. In this study
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Abdul Hadi, Nurul Farhanah, Nur Afifah Diyanah Shaharudin, Nurul Dalila Faris, Wan Sarah Wan Zainal Abidin, Nurin Erdiani Mhd Fadzil, and Siti Fazlina Isnin. "Understanding Writing Difficulty and Writing Process Among Pre-University Students." Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) 9, no. 9 (2024): e002935. http://dx.doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v9i9.2935.

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Numerous research findings reveal that a substantial proportion of pre-university students face challenges in developing proficient writing skills as they encounter difficulties in mastering this capability throughout the writing process. Therefore, this research examined how learners perceived their writing challenges and processes in academic writing in three distinct stages: before writing, during writing and during revising. Specifically, the study focused on the writing process and the challenges students encountered in crafting essays for the Extended Writing section of the Malaysian Uni
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Pramadanti, Rindika. "Analysis Of Students' Writing Abilities in Recount Text For Morphological And Syntactical Errors." MATAI: International Journal of Language Education 4, no. 1 (2023): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.30598/matail.v4i1.10985.

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This study aims to identify morphological and syntactic errors and the frequency, type and causes students to make when writing essays in recount texts. Qualitative research is the research methodology used. The papers of thirty first-semester ASA Indonesia University students in East Jakarta were used as data sources. Students must write an essay in English as part of the data collection process. Students can choose any theme they want to write in their paper. Based on the information discovered, 59 errors fell into the Morphology category, and 113 errors fell into the Syntax category of 172
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Le, Thanh Nguyet Anh, Tieu Phuong Dang, and Phuong Quyen Doan. "<span style="text-align:justify;"><strong>The impacts of online</strong><span style="color:red;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span><strong>newspapers and magazines on English majors’ writing skills</strong></span>." Dong Thap University Journal of Science 14, no. 7 (2025): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.52714/dthu.14.7.2025.1515.

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Writing plays an important role not only in academics but also in life. Investigating the impact of reading online newspapers and magazines on writing skills is essential at a rural university in the Mekong Delta, South of Vietnam. This research experiment, conducted over eight weeks, involved ten English majors from this institution's Faculty of Foreign Languages. The findings showed that all participants agreed that their writing skills improved when they applied this mode. However, they encountered several difficulties with English vocabulary and grammar, finding suitable newspapers for the
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Gildore, Phyll Jhann, Azmeer Hasann Uka, and Jonathan Yting. "Error Analysis of Academic Essays of Senior High School Students." Journal Corner of Education, Linguistics, and Literature 3, no. 2 (2023): 141–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.54012/jcell.v3i2.224.

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Students commit errors in their writing compositions due to their lack of English language proficiency and knowledge of the writing conventions. This study sought to analyze the errors committed by Senior High School (SHS) students of the University of Mindanao in their academic essays. The study utilized Corder’s error analysis to examine 100 academic essays of students. The results revealed that under the categories of errors, mechanics has the most problematic errors with 514 error counts (46.98%), followed by omission with 228 error counts (20.84%), addition with 190 error counts (17.37%),
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Demneri, Ejona. "Students’ Difficulties in Writing in English Language." Proceedings of The International Conference on Modern Research in Education, Teaching and Learning 3, no. 1 (2024): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.33422/icmetl.v3i1.290.

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English language is no doubt one of the most used and influential languages around the world. In Albania, English language learning starts since 6-year-old age. Therefore, many studies and research have been done concerning English language and competences. When studying a foreign language, writing is considered as the most demanding and crucial competence. Based on previous studies in Albania, students tend to face difficulties during the writing process. They lack the necessary writing skills needed to have a successful writing performance and they claim that further attention and importance
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Ahmed, Paryshan H. "Major Writing Challenges Experienced by EFL Learners in Soran University." Journal of University of Human Development 5, no. 3 (2019): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/juhd.v5n3y2019.pp120-126.

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The current research aims to investigate the challenges that EFL learners face in essay writing skills and the common errors they make in their English writing. One of the major aspects of language development and academic achievement among students at all levels of the education system is the capacity to achieve communicative competence in writing skills. Though, one of the essential problem learner faces at university is, learning to master essay writing skills. A descriptive survey research design was adopted in this study. The sample of the study are 32 randomly chosen third year students
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Ariyanti, Ariyanti. "EFL Students’ Use of Transition Signals in Essay Writing." Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics 6, no. 1 (2021): 285. http://dx.doi.org/10.21462/ijefl.v6i1.390.

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This study is aimed to explore the use transition signals used by EFL students in essay writing in higher education level. Particularly, this essay will be conducted to English Language Education Study Program students at University of Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda. This research is a qualitative study with content analysis research design where twenty-six comparison and contrast essays of the third semester students were analyzed by using coding which indicates transition signals used by students. Additionally, in-depth interview also applied to the students who are considered as less active u
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Nhi, Trần Thị Quyển, and Nguyễn Thị Thùy Dao. "AN INVESTIGATION INTO ENGLISH-MAJORED UNDERGRADUATES’ DIFFICULTIES IN ENGLISH ESSAY WRITING." TNU Journal of Science and Technology 228, no. 12 (2023): 458–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.34238/tnu-jst.8454.

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Nghiên cứu này nhằm mục đích tìm hiểu thêm về những khó khăn mà sinh viên chuyên ngành tiếng Anh năm thứ hai và năm thứ ba gặp phải khi học viết luận tiếng Anh tại trường Đại học An Giang. Tác giả đã sử dụng phương pháp hỗn hợp bằng cách phân phát bảng câu hỏi với thang đo Likert năm điểm cho 258 sinh viên chuyên ngành Ngôn ngữ Anh và thực hiện phỏng vấn bán cấu trúc với 13 sinh viên. Theo kết quả nghiên cứu, sinh viên gặp phải nhiều vấn đề về viết, phần lớn liên quan đến từ vựng, ngữ pháp, thiếu ý tưởng và động cơ học tập. Khi làm bài văn, đa số sinh viên còn thiếu vốn từ và mắc lỗi trong việ
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Pratiwi, Damar Isti, Armyta Puspitasari, and Ainun Fikria. "Mind-Mapping Technique and Writeabout Application Integration in an Online Writing Class: An Indonesian Vocational University Context." Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language--TESL-EJ 26, no. 4 (2023): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.55593/ej.26104a4.

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While writing has evolved away from the conventional method of using pens and paper in favor of digital tools (Li et al., 2019), English teachers continue to face difficulties in teaching writing. This study shows how mind-mapping and the program, Writeabout, can be merged for online writing classes in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) clasrooms. It reports on a classroom-based research with a qualitative research design which includes class observations and essay analysis of first-year undergraduate students enrolled in the Railway Mechanical Technology program in Indonesia during the acade
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Suraprajit, Prathomwat. "An Analysis of Errors in English Essays Written by Thai Non-English Major Students." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11, no. 1 (2021): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1101.02.

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Writing is one of the vital skills for EFL learners. However, they still face some difficulties while processing a task. The present study aimed to analyze the errors that occurred on sixty English essays made by Thai University non-English major students who enrolled in the fundamental English course. The Surface Strategy Taxonomy (Dulay, Burt, &amp; Krashen, 1982) was adopted to explore the errors of omission, addition, misformation, and misordering together with those that were excluded in the taxonomy. According to the framework of Surface Strategy Taxonomy, the findings revealed the most
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Dar, Muhammad Fareed, and Imran Khan. "Writing Anxiety Among Public And Private Sectors Pakistani Undergraduate University Students." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 10, no. 1 (2015): 157–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v10i1.232.

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Pakistan is among the countries where number of English language users is on rapid growth. Despite English has been an influential language in Pakistan since its independence, learners face difficulties in almost every area of English language learning: Listening, reading, writing and speaking referring to just basic skills of English language. This study focuses on one of the four basic skills: Writing. It measures levels of writing anxiety of Pakistani undergraduate students while writing essays on various topics in English. In this study, 418 students participated which represents both publ
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Tahara, Nobuko. "Japanese Students’ Difficulties with Metadiscursive Nouns in Argumentation Essays." English Language Teaching 15, no. 6 (2022): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v15n6p88.

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The present study attempts to identify difficulties that Japanese students encounter with metadiscursive nouns in writing second language (L2) argumentation essays. Metadiscursive nouns are abstract and unspecific nouns which can serve as cohesive markers by retrieving their meanings in the text where they occur. Using a selected number of nouns (i.e., problem. reason, thing, fact, idea, decision), this study examines how the nouns, occurring in several syntactic patterns, expressed their meanings in the text and served as metadiscursive devices in L2 essays written by Japanese students, in co
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Aulia, Lailani Sarafina, and David Rizal. "Analysis of Students Difficulty in Essay Writing Course." Journal of English Education Forum (JEEF) 4, no. 4 (2025): 224–27. https://doi.org/10.29303/jeef.v4i4.805.

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This study investigates the difficulties faced by university students in writing essays, particularly in the context of English education in Indonesia. The research identified key challenges such as limited vocabulary, anxiety, time constraints, and difficulty in organizing ideas. Through a quantitative approach that included an online distributed survey, this study collected data on students' experiences and perceptions of their writing skills. The results showed that many students experienced difficulties in various aspects of writing, including grammar and coherence, which often led to a la
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Muhammad Haji, Nawzar. "Investigating Writing Anxiety among Kurdish EFL Learners at the University Level." Twejer 7, no. 4 (2025): 699–714. https://doi.org/10.31918/twejer.2574.24.

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Writing in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) contexts has been claimed to be one of the most challenging tasks required by EFL learners. Many Kurdish learners of EFL face difficulties producing well-developed paragraphs and essays in their courses of study in higher education. Writing anxiety is one of the most common difficulties among many EFL learners all over the world. However, the factors leading to it could vary from one community to another. This study aimed to investigate writing anxiety among Kurdish learners of EFL at the university level. A mixed-method research approach is emplo
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Bolsunovskaya, L. M., and I. E. Rymanova. "Academic Writing: Difficulties and Possible Solutions for Engineering Students." Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii = Higher Education in Russia 29, no. 10 (2020): 77–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2020-29-10-77-85.

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Academic writing is considered to be the most challenging and difficult skill in terms of English as a Second Language. This study critically explores the obstacles in academic writing faced by students at Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia. To investigate, a comprehensive questionnaire has been floated among professional teachers to get their expert opinions (about students’ obstacles in writing) in order to identify some problems and form effective remedial strategies eventually. This paper focuses on the two significant aspects of academic writing, namely language skills (LS) (Grammar etc
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Teng, Mark Feng. "Coupling text structure and self-regulated strategy instruction for ESL primary school students’ writing outcomes." Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras, no. 35 (January 31, 2021): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.30827/portalin.v0i35.16861.

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Enlightened by the implied potential of coupling text structure knowledge and self-regulated strategies to enhance writing, this study explored the possible effects of a onemonth multicomponent intervention combining text structure with self-regulation training on writing. Target participants consisted of 178 primary school sixth-grade students learning English as a second language (ESL). Among them, 45 students received text structure instruction plus self-regulation strategy development (TSI+SRSD), 45 received text structure instruction only (TSI), 45 received SRSD only, and 43 were in a con
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Bisriyah, Maslihatul. "EFL University Students’ Difficulties in the Essay Writing Process." Scope : Journal of English Language Teaching 7, no. 1 (2022): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.30998/scope.v7i1.13793.

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&lt;div class="WordSection1"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Research on foreign language writing has shown that most EFL students faced some difficulties to produce a good composition in English. However, attention has mainly been directed to explore errors found on students’ written work. Little is known about what difficulties students have in the writing process. The present study investigates difficulties students faced in the six steps of writing process, namely choosing a topic, gathering ideas, outlining or organizing ideas, writing the first draft, reviewing the content and structure, as well as revising
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Demirel, Elif Tokdemir. "Detection of Common Errors in Turkish EFL Students’ Writing through a Corpus Analytic Approach." English Language Teaching 10, no. 10 (2017): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n10p159.

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The present study aims to explore Turkish EFL students’ major writing difficulties by analyzing the frequent writing errors in academic essays. Accordingly, the study examined errors in a corpus of 150 academic essays written by Turkish EFL students studying at the Department of English Language and Literature at a public university in Turkey. The essays were written on assigned topics as take home exam papers or assignments in the context of a first year academic writing course. The corpus consisted of essays of various lengths ranging from 500 word essays to 1500 word essays. The essays were
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Nabu, Andiani, and Nursela Pakaya. "Identify students’ difficulties in essay writing courses." Journal of English Teaching and Linguistic Issues (JETLI) 1, no. 2 (2022): 66–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.57153/jetli.v1i2.213.

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This study aims to determine the students' difficulties in the Essay Writing course. The subjects of this study were fifth semester students of the Department of English Education at IAIN Sultan Amai Gorontalo for the 2019/2020 academic year, totaling 5 students. The method used in this study is a qualitative method with a descriptive design. Data was collected through observation sheets, interviews and documentation. Analysis data is done through data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results showed that there were four difficulties in the Essay Writing course, namely
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Nabu, Andiani, and Nursela Pakaya. "Identify students’ difficulties in essay writing courses." Journal of English Teaching and Linguistic Issues (JETLI) 1, no. 2 (2022): 66–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.58194/jetli.v1i2.213.

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This study aims to determine the students' difficulties in the Essay Writing course. The subjects of this study were fifth semester students of the Department of English Education at IAIN Sultan Amai Gorontalo for the 2019/2020 academic year, totaling 5 students. The method used in this study is a qualitative method with a descriptive design. Data was collected through observation sheets, interviews and documentation. Analysis data is done through data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results showed that there were four difficulties in the Essay Writing course, namely
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Ithnin, Nur Hazirah Che, Farhanahbinti Mohamad Fikray, and Noor Zainab Abdul Razak. "Computer Supported Collaborative Writing: Does it Work among ESL Learners?" IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies 10, no. 3 (2018): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v10.n3.p3.

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This study examines the effectiveness of using Wiki as a platform to enhance EL learners’ writing skill in English language. In particular, the aim of this research is to examine learners’ performance in composing English language essays as well as to identify the challenges which the students faced throughout the process of writing through Wiki. This study involved the respondents from secondary school who were in Form 2 and it consists of three levels of language proficiency which the researchers have identified. Specifically, the research data is collected through writing assessments (pre-t
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Salih, Abdelrahman Abdalla. "Investigating Rhetorical Aspects of Writing Argumentative Essays and Persuasive Posters: Students’ Perspective." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11, no. 12 (2021): 1571–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1112.09.

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Students at the tertiary level need arguments because they are expected to use analytical and critical thinking skills. The present study is situated in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context in an Omani University and reports the experience of (N=46) undergraduate EFL writers in argumentative essays and persuasive posters. Using rhetorical strategies, and drawing on the principles of persuasive writing, the participants prepared posters and essays on two separate topics. Data were collected from the 46 participants’ responses to a semi-structured online survey questionnaire. Analysis
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Srinawati, Wawat, and Rahmawati Alwi. "Critical Thinking Ability in EFL Students' Argumentative Essay Writing: The Difficulties and The Strategies." JURNAL SERAMBI ILMU 21, no. 2 (2020): 200–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.32672/si.v21i2.2194.

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The aim of research is to explore the effect, if any, of integrating critical thinking on learners’ use of critical thinking skills in argumentative writing. The research used quasi-experimental desaign, it is include control group and experimental group. The data which has been quantitatively analyzed indicates that the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group. The students’ ability to use more credible evidence, address alternative arguments, support conclusions, and maintain the logical flow of ideas in their essays did not reach a mastery level in the posttest, yet t
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