A SURVEY ON THE DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING ESSAYS OF ENGLISH MAJORED SOPHOMORES AT TAY DO UNIVERSITY, VIETNAM

Các tác giả

  • Thi Minh Uyen Phan Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, Tay Do University, Can Tho City, Vietnam
  • Thi Thuy Hang Nguyen Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, Tay Do University, Can Tho City, Vietnam
  • Thanh Trung Le Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, Tay Do University, Can Tho City, Vietnam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejel.v7i2.4216

Từ khóa:

writing essays, difficulties in writing essays, English majored sophomores

Tóm tắt

This thesis “A study on the difficulties in writing essays of English-majored sophomores at Tay Do University” was conducted to examine the difficulties that second-year students majoring in English often met in writing essays. For this purpose, the participants in this study were 100 English majored sophomores in classes 14A, 14B and 14C at Tay Do University. The interview with 3 extended statements for English majored teachers and a questionnaire with 25 closed statements for students is used as instruments to collect the data. The data from the interview and questionnaire were collected to make clear and prove the problems that the students have had in writing essays. The study figured out some difficulties about background knowledge, vocabulary, grammar structure, idea arrangement and orthography in writing essays faced by English majors sophomores at Tay Do University. Besides, this study also helps students realize their challenges and improve their writing essays.

 

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    M.A. Thi Minh Uyen Phan received her B.A degree of University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City. She also graduated in Applied Linguistics from La Trobe University in Australia. The author has 20 years of experience teaching English and is currently a senior lecturer at Tay Do University.

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    M.A. Thi Thuy Hang Nguyen is currently a lecturer at Tay Do University's Department of English. She received both her B.A in English pedagogical major and M.A in principles and methods of English Language Education from Can Tho University. She has more than ten years of experience teaching English. She is an expert in both English and French. She had done some researchs and obtained qualifications in the fields of training workshop and teaching before that.

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    B.A. Thanh Trung Le just graduated in bachelor's degree of English major from Tay Do University in Can Tho, Vietnam. He is proficient in computer skills, informatics and language skills. Currently, he has obtained important certificates in both English and French.

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2022-03-29

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Tập 7 Số 2 (2022)

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