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Direct linkClark, Tony; Yu, Guoxing – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This case study explores the challenges that Master's students encounter when learning to write in academic English as part of a UK postgraduate course, after having achieved the required IELTS entry score. Interviews with six Chinese and Japanese learners at different stages of the Master's study revealed more sophisticated writing difficulties…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Critical Thinking
Download full textToba, Rostanti; Noor, Widya Noviana; Sanu, La Ode – Dinamika Ilmu, 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate issues of Indonesian EFL students' writing skills, covering ability, problem and reason why they got problems in writing comparison and contrast essay. The convergent parallel of mixed methods was used to explore these issues by involving 52 EFL students of IAIN Samarinda who enrolled the academic essay…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
Demirel, Elif Tokdemir – English Language Teaching, 2017
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Correction, Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language)
Thomas, Suneeta – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
This study qualitatively analyzes the challenges presented by international undergraduate students in a freshman composition course at a large Midwestern university in the US. 15 students were divided into five groups, of three members each, with varying proficiency levels in writing. They were asked to submit reflections as journal/blog posts, on…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Language Proficiency, Journal Writing, Peer Evaluation
Ravichandran, Swathi; Kretovics, Mark; Kirby, Kara; Ghosh, Ankita – Journal of International Students, 2017
Since 2000, there has been a 72% increase in the number of international students attending US institutions of higher education. The increase, specifically of international graduate students, has brought to light the writing challenges experienced by this population of students. This study explored specific writing challenges experienced by…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Writing Strategies, English (Second Language)
Al Murshidi, Ghadah – English Language Teaching, 2014
The study examines writing challenges Emirati and Saudi students face at U.S. universities. Based on a sample of 219, a mixed methods approach was used to analyze responses from the participants. The results of the questionnaire reveal that Less than 31% Emirati and Saudi students feel "comfortable" in completing written assignments. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Mixed Methods Research, Questionnaires
Doolan, Stephen M. – Written Communication, 2014
Developmental composition courses serve a sizable and growing number of Generation 1.5 students, or long-term U.S. resident language learners, and it is believed that language challenges may be part of Generation 1.5 writers' difficulty in controlling the academic register. The current study investigates possible similarities and differences…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Student Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Rodby, Judith – Writing Instructor, 1990
Argues that the notion of writing as the expression of a fixed and unified individual identity is inappropriate for the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) student. Suggests that composition teachers recognize that writing in English engages the nonnative speaker in a dialectic of identity and difference and promote this difference rather than…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)
Van Gilst, Lorna; Villalobos, Jose – 1996
High school students in Venezuela study English grammar and vocabulary for 5 years, but, because theirs is an oral culture, they do very little reading or writing either in their native language or in English. When students reach the university and begin to study composition, they are unmotivated to write essays on teacher assigned topics for a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Essays, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
