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VOLUME 9, ISSUE 2, Feb. -2023
SOME DIFFICULTIES ON TEACHING WRITING FOR EFL STUDENTS
S. D. Mamarajabova
Student of Termez State University
[email protected]
99 287 19 15

Research Advisor: Y. B. Bakhriddinova

Teacher of Termez State University

Abstract:
Teaching writing has become difficult because of the challenges faced by the students in learning
writing skills. Some of the challenges that are faced by the EFL students are lack of vocabulary, poor
grammar, poor spelling, students’ readiness and lack of exposure to books and reading materials.

Keywords: Writing skills, teaching and learning writing, challenges of writing.

Introduction
There are many consequences that could lead to major drawbacks in students’ academic performance
if they have a weak foundation in writing. Writing is not only vital in order to develop their academic
performance, but also contributes to their social and emotional development. Moreover, in this
competitive world, writing is also one of the skills that is necessary to excel. Their inability to write well,
may affect their chances to secure a job in the future. Therefore, this issue needs to be tackled effectively.
The challenges faced by the students have made it challenging for teachers to teach writing skills. The
challenges that are faced by the teachers to teach writing skills are difficult to motivate their students,
students of diverse levels, difficult materials and time constraints to teach the students. In order to
improve a student’s writing ability, more attention must be given by a teacher to teach writing such as
giving guidance and feedback. Therefore, a teacher needs to be aware of the challenges faced by other
English teachers in teaching writing skills and ESL students’ challenges in learning to write.

Materials
Each student may face different challenges in learning writing. All the students are special and unique
in their own ways. These challenges will somehow pull back the students from moving forward to
produce a good piece of writing. The following paragraphs are about challenges faced by students in
writing. Lack of vocabulary has caused the students to face challenges in acquiring writing skills. [1]
Vocabulary is the fundamental element in constructing sentences which is the core of effective writing
skills.[2] Students almost use spoken and written words every single day to communicate their ideas,
beliefs and feelings with people around them. Good vocabulary repertoire can help students to speak
or write to deliver their thoughts. Usage of electronic dictionary and more reading activities can help
students with limited vocabulary.

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Methods
Some EFL students are also having trouble with grammar. Grammar plays an important role in writing.
Grammar provides information that helps the readers to understand its meaning. It is a structure that
conveys the detailed meaning of the writer to the reader. Grammar also explains the forms and
structure of words, called morphology and how they are arranged in sentences, called syntax. By having
very limited knowledge in grammar, students will face anxiety to write sentences with correct grammar.

Results
Poor spelling is another cause of anxiety for students in learning writing skill. [3] Having good ability in
spelling will lead to positive learning of writing skill. If the students are struggling with spellings, it will
hold them back to move forward. The students have the habit to spell according to their pronunciation
and this will lead to wrong spelling. [4] The students will either add or leave letters of the words. Last
but not the least, lack of motivation is another challenge faced by the students. If the students are not
motivated, they might not be interested to proceed with their learning process. Motivation is important
in improving students’ learning results.[5] Teachers could motivate the students by rewarding them
with simple motivational phrases by saying “Good job!”, “Good try!”, “Keep it up” etc. Positive reward
will make the students go further in their learning process. Teaching has always been the challenging
part for teachers. Teaching English at primary level is naturally much more different from teaching in
other levels of students such as secondary and tertiary levels. The challenge will somehow make the
teachers’ teaching ineffective. The following are the challenges faced by teachers. Nowadays, teachers
are having a hard time in motivating the students.The younger generation has the perception that they
can do whatever they please since much freedom has been given to them by their parents. When
students choose to feel reluctant in learning, it is a sign of lack of motivation. [6]

Discussion
Having different levels of students in the classroom is another challenge faced by teachers to teach
writing. In many elementary classrooms, students from different levels are placed in the same
classroom. Different levels of students will result to difficulty to teachers in order to cater all of their
levels simultaneously. [9]Different levels of writing ability will require the teachers to use different
approaches. As a result, the teachers feel difficult to plan their lessons and prepare appropriate
activities for the students. [7] Lack of students’ interest is another challenge. Developing writing skills
is always challenging, however, it is always an interesting task. Especially when it comes to writing,
some students zone out. Students feel lack of interest in writing because they need to know many
aspects in order to produce a good piece of work. The students need to know punctuations, grammar,
vocabulary, spelling and sentence structure in order to write a good piece of writing.

Conclusion
As writing has been becoming the most challenging task among students and it takes lots of time to
learn, I personally believe we can overcome this obstacles with working hard on our weak points. By
understanding both the students’ and teachers’ challenges in learning and teaching writing skills, the
teachers could choose the best possible approach to teach writing skills by giving feedback and
guidance.
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 This Certificate is awarded to

Y. B. Bakhriddinova
For Publication of paper Entitled
SOME DIFFICULTIES ON TEACHING WRITING FOR EFL STUDENTS

In Volume 9, Issue 2, of JournalNX- A Multidisciplinary Peer Reviewed

Journal, Feb., 2023, Published by Novateur Publication, M.S. India.