Challenges in English academic writing faced by Indonesian EFL teacher training students

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Fitriyah, Wahyuni Dwi (2021) Challenges in English academic writing faced by Indonesian EFL teacher training students. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

As a future teacher, the teacher training students need to understand all of the challenges, especially in writing English academic that are investigated in this research, and find possible solutions to their challenges. The aims of this research are to explore the challenges in English academic writing and to describe students’ ways to face the challenges in English academic writing faced by Indonesian EFL teacher training student. This qualitative research investigated the students’ challenges in English academic writing. The subject of this study was students from 7th semester of English Language Education Department at 5 different universities in Surabaya with three private and two public universities offering teacher training program. In collecting the data, doing interviews with 5 lecturers and 10 students from 7th semester at 5 different universities in Surabaya. Also, online questionnaires were distributed to 81 students from 7th semester at 5 different universities in Surabaya. The results of this study highlighted the following: (1) The challenges are mostly faced by the students in English academic writing are the structure, developing idea, and choosing vocabulary related to their own topic. (2) The students’ ways to face the challenges in English academic writing are learning from an example of good academic writing, finding and reading many references like a journal, book, and paper, and using the application “Grammarly” to help the students check their grammar aspect. These findings imply that most students have difficulties in structure or written aspects when they write English academic writing papers, and the students’ ways that mostly used to solve those challenges is learning from an example of good academic writing.