A SURVEY STUDY ON WRITING SKILL PROBLEMS AND ENHANCEMENT STRATEGIES CONSTRUCTION OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT GUANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Keywords:
Writing Skill Problems, Enhancement Strategies Construction, Guangxi University of Foreign LanguagesAbstract
The purposes of this research were: 1) investigate the problems of English writing experienced by undergraduate students Guangxi University of Foreign Languages, 2) to construct the enhancement strategies of English writing skill for undergraduate Chinese students at Guangxi University of Foreign Languages. There are two groups of the respondents in this research, namely, 1) 346 undergraduate Chinese students, and 2) 130 teachers in the academic year 2025. The data and information were collected through questionnaires and the focus group discussion meeting. The data and information collected were then analyzed and presented in terms of frequency count, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. In addition, the comments of the three specialists collected from Guangxi University of Foreign Languages from the focus group discussion meeting towards the correctness and suitability of the strategies were analyzed through the content analysis method. The findings revealed that the students rated writing problems with mean values ranging from 4.21 to 4.40 (SD = 0.12-0.21) while the teachers rated the writing problems with mean value ranging from 4.31 to 4.66 (SD = 0.13-0.22). In addition, the enhancement strategies of English writing skill for undergraduate Chinese students were categorized into four chapters, namely, namely, chapter 1: About Learners , chapter 2: About Instructors, Chapter 3: About classroom management, and chapter 4: About teaching-learning materials and assessment. All the 4 chapters were approved by the three specialists in terms of correctness and suitability. The strategies should be applied in the English teaching and learning curriculum of the undergraduate students at
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