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- Title
AN INVESTIGATION OF SAUDI EFL LEARNERS' WRITING PROBLEMS: A CASE STUDY ALONG GENDER-LINES.
- Authors
Javid, Choudhary Zahid; Farooq, Muhammad Umar; Umer, Muhammad
- Abstract
The study in is a comprehensive investigation to identify the important writing tasks, major areas of difficulty in academic writing, the factors causing these difficulties and the corrective measures in the Saudi EFL academic context. It attempted to identify gender-based differences for the above-mentioned factors and the results of independent-samples t-test did not show major differences in the perceptions of both the groups partially accepting the null hypotheses. Several research studies were reviewed and a 40-item Likert-scale agree-disagree questionnaire was developed by the researcher. It was translated into Arabic and piloted before it was administered to 194 Saudi EFL learners (108 male & 86 female) studying at Taif University. Descriptive analyses and Independent-samples t-test were run using SPSS version 17. The findings reported that these particular Saudi EFL learners have serious problems in their academic writing due to their weaknesses in using appropriate lexical items, organisation of ideas and grammar. The other weaker areas include wrong use of prepositions, spellings, irregular verbs, articles, punctuation, suffixes and prefixes. It is recommended to implement a stricter admission policy, increase language courses, develop tailor-made activities, provide increased practice in academic writing, exploit modern teaching techniques and equip the classrooms with modern teaching aids to improve Saudi EFL learners’ academic writing.
- Subjects
DICTATION (Educational method); TEACHING; PRINT awareness; PRINTING; PHONOLOGICAL awareness
- Publication
Kashmir Journal of Language Research, 2013, Vol 16, Issue 1, p179
- ISSN
1028-6640
- Publication type
Article