Investigating Student’s Difficulties in Writing Paragraphs The Case of First Year Students of English at Biskra University

Abstract

The majority of EFL learners are face a lot of difficulties when writing a paragraph, most of them trying to overcome these difficulties because it actually effects on their academic career. So, the goal of the present study is to know the most relevant difficulties that face first year university students to help them overcome Those writing problems by suggesting appropriate solutions, and in the same time help the teachers because they suffer more when they see these errors in their students’ writing. To achieve the research’s main aim, we followed the quantitative approach to gather and analyze data. Correspondingly, we use two data collection tools, a questionnaire for first year students of Mohamed Keider University of Biskra, and the second tool is also a questionnaire to teachers of Mohamed kheider Biskra. The results obtained from the teachers and students questionnaire reveals that many students suffer from writing difficulties because a lot of factors that are, mainly, the time devoted to the teaching of writing skill is not enough, and the lack of practicing writing outside classroom. At the end, some solutions were suggested from teachers and students help overcome those problems of writing