EFL Student‟s Weaknesses in Written Language Production.

Abstract

Mastering the EFL writing skill is among the most important abilities that students of English need to accomplish from their English teaching classes.This study mainly aims to investigate EFL students weakness in the written language production .This research additionally aims to reveal the difficulties and common errors that faced students when writing .The participants in the study are (46) randomly selected third year students and also (11) teacher at high school of Dahmouni-Tiaret in order to achieve the main objective of this study.This study implemented a quantitative method ,data was collected through two online questionnaires administrated to both teachers and students in order to gather sufficient and suitable information about their views and opinions.The results obtained from the questionnaires confirmed the validity of the questions asked and indicated that students face a major difficulties when writing in English ,and this are due to several factors some of them are summarized below;problems with grammar and vocabulary,spelling and punctuation ,lack of reading and motivation ,mother tongue and first language (L1) interference ,also ,topic choice,coherence and cohesion difficulty;which resulted a significant weakness in producing acceptable texts such as;paragraphs or articles.Based on these findings ,teachers are adviced to take into account EFL students writing problems ,and help them overcome these difficultiesby devoting more sessions for them to learn writing are among the pedagogical recommendations .