Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature, and Education (ICLLE 2020)

Student Writers’ Academic Essay Writing Problems: Students’ and Teachers’ Responses

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Mohamad Hafrison
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Mohamad Hafrison
Available Online 10 November 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201109.043How to use a DOI?
Keywords
student writer, academic essay writing problems, responses
Abstract

This study was aimed at investigating the student writers’ problems in writing academic essay viewed from students and teachers. The rational is that the ability to write academic essays benefits students at Indonesian Language of Education, Universitas Negeri Padang for academic and career needs as teachers. This descriptive study analyzed the data gained from the questionnaires distributed to 38 students, the native speakers of Indonesian writing academic essay in Indonesian language and 7 teachers teaching Indonesian Language. They were about students’ difficulties on prewriting, coherence, cohesion, lexicon, and mechanics which were elaborated into 23 items (devices). The findings indicated that in prewriting, the students experienced difficulty most on planning unfamiliar topics, while teachers responded that generating relevant and consistent ideas was difficult for students. In coherence, both students and teachers agreed that developing main idea into complete paragraphs was the main problems for students. In cohesion, students and teachers responded differently. Students experienced that using ellipsis was the most difficult one, while teachers found that writing a good introduction to the essay and developing main idea into complete paragraphs was the most difficult for the students. In lexical, the teachers’ and students ‘responses were the same. Using idioms and word collocations was the most difficult one for students. In mechanics, the teachers and the students responded differently. The students experienced writing grammatically correct sentences was the most difficult one, but the teachers identified that using punctuation was the main problem for the students. Overall, those findings indicated some areas of improvement in teaching academic essay.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature, and Education (ICLLE 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
10 November 2020
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.201109.043
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201109.043How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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