The Current Issues of Indonesian EFL Students’ Writing Skills: Ability, Problem, and Reason in Writing Comparison and Contrast Essay

Toba, Rostanti; Noor, Widya Noviana; Sanu, La Ode

doi:10.21093/di.v19i1.1506

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“…The findings of this research showed that 50% respondents acquired fair score, and 17% was in poor qualification for their English writing. This finding was different from a study conducted by Toba, Noor, & Sanu (2019) who found that the English writing ability of undergraduate students can be considered as good. In addition, the results of this study was also not in line with Husin & Nurbayani's study (2017) who explained that the average score of thesis written in English by university students were relatively good quality.…”

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The Process and Problems of EFL Learners in English Writing

2020

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The objectives of the study were to investigate the process of English writing from students of undergraduate international class, to describe problems faced by students in writing English, and to find out the factors which inhibit and improve their writing skills. There were six female respondents in international class. The study used documentation from the students’ work, open-ended questionnaire and interview as the instruments for data gathering. All the data were analyzed by using descriptive qualitative approach. The results of this study showed that all students used four stages in the process of English writing: planning, drafting, editing and final revision. The students’ English writing problems covered content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanic. The factors which inhibit them in writing English included not being confident in writing English, not mastering grammar and vocabulary, and lack of practice in writing. The aspects which encourage them to write English were due to the demands as international class students, watching English movie, reading English books or journals, listening English songs and having ambition to acquire scholarship overseas.

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The Process and Problems of EFL Learners in English Writing

2020

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“…As stated by Setyowati (2016: 79-80), writing is a skill that difficult to master since there are many elements that must be considered by the writer to be able to produce a piece of a good writing, namely clear purpose, organization, word choice, language use, and ideas. However, Writing is one of the productive English skills that should be masterly skilled by English as Foreign Language (EFL) students in Indonesia for both written communication and academic writing purposes, such as; letters, essays, papers, articles, journals, project reports, theses, etc (Toba, Noor, & Sanu, 2019).…”

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The Students’ Problems and Solutions in Writing an Argumentative Essay on Gender Issue

Setyowati

Agustina

Sukmawan

et al. 2020

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<p><em>This study is intended to find out the students’ problems and their solutions in writing argumentative essays. The subjects of this study were the fourth-semester students of English Education study program, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of PGRI Wiranegara in the academic year 2019-2020. This study used Byrne’s classification in 1995 about writing problems, namely psychological, linguistic, and cognitive. This uses descriptive quantitative design. The instruments were documentation of the students’ writing tasks and interviews. The result shows the almost all students have no problems in making thesis statements and refutations for their argumentative essay regarding gender issue. The students’ psychological problems are anxiety, nervousness, the feeling of pressure in timed writing and perfect work, a negative expectation in writing, and low self-confidence. For the linguistic problems, the result from both data indicated that students faced problems in tenses, word-class, word formation, the use of the article, and word error. While the cognitive problems faced by the students are being ignorant in the use of punctuation, short knowledge in giving appropriate examples and details in the body of the essay, and lack of knowledge in writing reference. The solutions proposed by the students, among others are to have more readings on the topic, to be self-motivated learners, to propose untimed writing to the lecturer, and to use writing tools applications.</em></p>

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“…Another fact is that exposure to the facility to develop students' writing skills is still far from being sufficient. These problems are also listed by Toba et al (2019) as the main obstacles that most Indonesians face in their writing class.…”

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Fostering Students’ Writing Skill by the Integration of Mall Application

Dwigustini

Sari

Susilawati

et al. 2021

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Writing has been one of the most significant skill to acquire by high school students. In fact, students still find it difficult due to weak mastery of writing components and limited practice as well as exposure and facility. On these ground, utilizing MALL in hybrid learning setting is assumed to enhance their writing skill. Employing qualitative approach with classroom action research design conducted in 3 cycles, 20 high school students were involved in this study. The data were obtained using observation, test and interview. The findings suggested that online writing application can help promoting students’ writing skill proven by the score increase from cycle 1 to 3 as well as their participation. The students either perceived the MALL application positively.

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The Current Issues of Indonesian EFL Students’ Writing Skills: Ability, Problem, and Reason in Writing Comparison and Contrast Essay

Cited by 112 publications

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The Process and Problems of EFL Learners in English Writing

The Process and Problems of EFL Learners in English Writing

The Students’ Problems and Solutions in Writing an Argumentative Essay on Gender Issue

Fostering Students’ Writing Skill by the Integration of Mall Application

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