An Assessment of Factors That Affect &amp;lt;Writing Performance of English Language and Literature Regular Students’ at Kebri Dehar University&amp;gt;

Mulugeta Asnakew Tadesse

doi:10.11648/j.sjedu.20200806.12

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to assess the factors that affect writing performance of English Language and Literature regular students at Kebri Dehar University. The study used a mixed method that involves quantitative and qualitative methods. Questionnaire, interview and document review were used to gather the necessary data for the study. Four writing instructors and seventy English language and literature regular students were the subject of the study; and they were chosen in purposely and comprehensively in respectively. Thus, descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages were employed in analyzing the quantitative data. The qualitative data were analyzed in sentence description. Researcher used primary data sources to collect the data. A primary data source is an original data source which is one in that the data are collected firsthand by the researcher for a specific research purpose. In the analyzed data the findings of the study indicated lack of interest in writing, lack of wide reading habit, lack of writing background knowledge, fear of making mistake are some of the factors that affect students’ writing performance. Based on the result of the study recommendations have been made to solve the failure of students’ writing performance particular focusing on English language and literature regular students at Kebri Dehar University.

Highlights

In English, there are four major skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing
As indicated in table 1 for question number 1, 31 respondents or 44.5% of the respondents strongly agreed and 29 respondents or 41.4% of the respondents agreed that lack of grammar skill is the factor that affect their writing performance
19 (27.1%) of respondents disagreed and 15 (21.4%) of respondents strongly disagreed about the difficulty nature of writing is the factor that affects their writing performance

Summary

Introduction

It is a system of using symbols properly to communicate thoughts in readable form. Steven [7] stated that, all writing systems use visible signs except the blind people. He added that a meaningful writing system consists of criteria such as: it should have as its purpose communication and must use signs which relate commonly articulate speech. “writing is a practice of mind requiring the master of techniques’ any one can learn. If someone knows how to write, he/she will get a long faster and farther” [13]

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