LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:1 January 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Writing Problems among the Tertiary Level Students in
Bangladesh: A Study in Chittagong Region

Shakila Mustaque, M.A. in English and M.A. in ELT

In Bangladeshi educational institutions, L2 writers are found to encounter various writing problems. The circumference of this problem does not confine to the secondary and the higher secondary level. It reaches up to the tertiary level. But at this stage of learning students are generally expected to produce high standard writing.

These learners practice writing at the different pre- university stages but this long time practice fails to bring any changes in their writing proficiency. Though they acquire grammatical accuracy but their writings reveal repetitions, inappropriate organization of ideas, parallelism, short-length, lack of variation, use of vague words, lack of appropriate information, etc., which make it incoherent.

So, the goal of the current study is to spotlight the general writing problems encountered by the tertiary level students in Bangladesh. It also aims at finding out the reasons hidden behind these problems.

The research used closed questionnaire and writing samples of the students. Analysis of findings revealed that the numerous problems faced by the students lies in their wrong attitude towards writing. I hope this research will be helpful for teachers and students to identify the writing problems. It will also help the syllabus planner to design course materials according to the students’ need.

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Shakila Mustaque, M.A. in English and M.A. in ELT
Department of English
BGC Trust University Bangladesh
Chandanish
Chittagong
Bangladesh
shakilamustaque@yahoo.com
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