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- Title
An Investigation Study of Academic Writing Problems Faced by Arab Postgraduate Students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).
- Authors
Abdulkareem, Mustafa N.
- Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the academic writing problems encountered by Arab speaking postgraduate students at Universiti Technologi Malaysia (UTM). There are two research questions of this study. The first question involved the identification of mistakes that Arab speaking postgraduate students commit in academic writing at UTM. The second question dealt with the problems Arab speaking students' perceived in academic writing. The data for the study were collected through distributing a set of questionnaires and writing task. The respondents of this study were 85 Arab speaking postgraduate students who come from different Arabic countries like Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Libya, Palestine, and Syria who enrolled for the academic session of 2011/2012. A snowballing technique was used to determine the samples of this study. A set of the questionnaires were distributed to 80 of the respondents to reveal their opinions towards the causes of academic writing problems. Another 5 students were given a writing task which was to write two short paragraphs regarding their fields of works. The students' writing was sent to an expert of English language to identify the mistakes made by the students. The findings of the study nevertheless could be used to recommend effective teaching approaches to teach academic writing that are currently used by English language teachers and specialists.
- Subjects
ARAB countries; UNIVERSITI Teknologi Malaysia; FOREIGN language education; ENGLISH as a foreign language; ENGLISH language education; LANGUAGE research; ACADEMIC discourse; EDUCATION; GRADUATE students
- Publication
Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 2013, Vol 3, Issue 9, p1552
- ISSN
1799-2591
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4304/tpls.3.9.1552-1557