Probing the Obstacles Students Face While Writing The case of third year EFL Students at Chadli Bendjedid University

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate the main obstacles that EFL students face while asked to make a writing production at Chadli Bendjedid University. Hence, we worked with 30 out of 89 third year students as a sample for investigation. We gave them a series of questions ‘’ the questionnaire’’ in order to track the problems and difficulties in learning the writing skill and to find solutions to overcome this issue. The research data were quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed; the results showed that third year students still really face obstacles in their writing ability. We detected the major factors behind Chadli Bendjedid EFL students ‘poor writing production. They are related to both; teachers : as the lack of an appropriate approach to teach writing, the absence of teache r motivation etc, and students lack of reading, lack of self-motivation and lack of practice. This research provided a set of recommendations and pedagogical suggestions in order to handle the situation and to find solutions to overcome the obstacles that hinder the students from writing correctly. We tried to find ways that could at least minimize these difficulties; i.e., the teacher would adapt an appropriate approach, suitable technique, and good strategies to help students produce correct and healthy pieces of writing, and the students should work on improving their writing skill by practicing more, and read more and more. Hence, this topic under study tackled this issue in this manner, yet it could be handled from other perspectives in future researches.