An Analysis of Factors Influencing EFL Learners’ Writing Skills
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https://doi.org/10.53103/cjlls.v2i2.38Keywords:
Writing Skill, EFL Learners, Effective Factors, Coherence, CohesionAbstract
Writing skill is a special attitude that writers can set their opinions into words with it. Throughout writing skills, they mentally interact with words and massages. Writing is an integral fragment of language practice. Using a set of symbols also represents the language in a textual medium. However, writing is a challenging ability. It is difficult to write coherently. It needs the abilities combing words and sentences. This paper aims to explore the factors that affect the EFL learners’ writing skills both in negative and positive ways. This review paper marks out the body of research regarding the term of writing skill, the problems of writing, and factors influencing writing. Based on the literature review, the learners’ priority is developing writing skills, and they require more attention. This study helps the language instructors to find out learners’ needs in English language teaching. It also helps the learners to investigate the factors that expand their writing skills. Furthermore, this study provides the factors that need to be focused on by the learners and the teachers to find out what makes writing skills properly.
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