Investigating Writing Difficulties in Essay Writing: Tertiary Students' Perspectives

Autor/inn/en	Bulqiyah, Suhaimah; Mahbub, Moh. Arif; Nugraheni, Dyah Ayu
Titel	Investigating Writing Difficulties in Essay Writing: Tertiary Students' Perspectives
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 4 (2021) 1, S.61-73 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mahbub, Moh. Arif)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2621-6485
Schlagwörter	Writing Difficulties; Student Attitudes; Essays; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Writing Instruction; Grammar; Teacher Attitudes; Undergraduate Students; Classification; Writing Processes; Transfer of Training; Interference (Language); Vocabulary; Academic Language; Private Colleges; Foreign Countries; Indonesia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schreibstörung; Schülerverhalten; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Schreibunterricht; Grammatik; Lehrerverhalten; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Wortschatz; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Privathochschule; Ausland; Indonesien
Abstract	This study is primarily designed for investigating the tertiary students' perspectives on the writing difficulties of essays. This study was conducted in explanatory research in which quantitative and qualitative data were obtained from the web-based questionnaire and semi-structured interview, then analyzed separately. Twenty-one undergraduate students have enrolled in the survey and six of them were invited to the interview section. This research reveals that tertiary students' problems in essay writing course are categorized into: affective problems which raise from students' and lecturers' attitude while teaching and learning Essay Writing Course, cognitive problems that are considered as the difficulties in the areas of writing viewpoint, transferring language, and the process of writing, and linguistic problems in the area of lexico-grammar, vocabulary, and the structure of the essay. Based on the findings, those aspects of academic writing should be given serious attention by both EFL students and teachers to overcome the problems. The findings of this study have implications for EFL writing course designer as basic data of material improvement and for researchers particularly in the realms of language and education. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Universitas Ahmad Dahlan. Kampus 4 UAD, Jl. Ringroad Selatan, Tamanan, Bantul Yogyakarta, 55166 Indonesia. e-mail: eltej@pbi.uad.ac.id; Web site: http://journal2.uad.ac.id/index.php/eltej/index
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01