The Challenges That Indonesian Students Faced in Academic Writing: A Cross-Disciplinary Study of Academic Literacies
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210407.207How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Academic Writing Challenges, Indonesian International Students, Academic Literacies
- Abstract
This study primarily aimed at investigating academic writing challenges that Indonesian postgraduate students faced at The Queen’s University of Belfast enrolling at academic year 2017/2018 across disciplines. Further, designed under descriptive qualitative study, twice narrative interviews conducted to gather data of this study. The finding of this study confirmed that the participants initially had common challenges in academic writing, such as developing critical thinking, avoiding plagiarism, sentence structure and few practices or training on academic writing. Critical thinking encompassed their ability to analyse, to evaluate, to infer and to interpret an idea which then reworded into their own. Those shortcomings affected their understanding on how a plagiarism could be avoided or even minimized. Additionally, less understanding on English grammar and lack of academic writing practices were among other challenges found. In terms of academic literacies, it was found that the participants had quite few interactions with academic English which influenced their ability to compose academic writing. It could be concluded that there should be more academic writing enhancement programs across universities in Indonesia to tackle those common problems while studying abroad.
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- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Muflihun AU - Citra Prasiska Puspita Tohamba PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/09 TI - The Challenges That Indonesian Students Faced in Academic Writing: A Cross-Disciplinary Study of Academic Literacies BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Technology and Educational Science (ICTES 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 12 EP - 18 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210407.207 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210407.207 ID - 2021 ER -