COMMON SENTENCE PROBLEMS IN ACADEMIC WRITING COMMITTED BY VIETNAMESE STUDENTS OF ENGLISH: SITUATION, CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS

Abstract

At university level, academic writing has always been more critical for English majors. At this stage of learning, errors in academic writing are sometimes unacceptable. As can be seen from the results of some academic writing tests at Thai Nguyen University of Education (TUE), most of English majors at TUE have great problems in writing English - the students have many difficulties while producing sentences in English. Therefore, the ultimate objective of the study is to investigate common sentence problems of English majors at Thai Nguyen University of Education (TUE) in academic writing as well as causes of these errors. It will also expose the writing problems thanks to error analysis in students’ academic writing. In this paper, the questionnaire part would present both the perspectives of teachers and students regarding this issue. Our study may assist teachers to find out why students make these errors and how these errors can be avoided. Finally, our research has an intention to figure out some efficient and necessary solutions to these problems so that both teachers and students can achieve their goals relating to writing skill development.