ISSN 2348-3156 (Print) International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research ISSN 2348-3164 (online) Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp: (304-309), Month: July - September 2022, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
Attempting the Difficulties Faced by EFL Students in Using Cohesive Devices in Writing at University Level 1
Hajr Hamad Idris Ibrahim, 2Ishag Adam Hassan Ahmed
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Assistant Professor, University of Bahri- College of Languages- Department of English Language Khartoum. Sudan. 2
Assistant Professor University of Bahri- College of Education- Department of English Language and LiteratureKhartoum- Sudan DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7009914
Published Date: 19-August-2022
Abstract: This study aimed at investigating the difficulties encountered by EFL students in using cohesive devices in writing. The researcher adopted the descriptive analytical method for data collection. The researcher used test to collect the data of the study. The researcher gave a test to 40 students of second year English major at University of Bahri 2022 college of Education department of English language. The researcher used SPSS programme to analyze the data, which showed in percentage and numbers of the students. The result obtained confirmed that second year students at university of Bahri have difficulties in using grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in writing. Moreover, the researcher recommended that, English teachers should encourage the students to use different types of cohesive devices in their writing. Keywords: cohesion, investigation, adopted, encountered and encouragement.
I. INTRODUCTION In the Background of the study the researcher is going to give a theoretical study focusing on English language is the most spread language all over the world. Therefore, teaching and learning English language have been popular in the world. However, learning English language goes through different aspects of language skills. One of these aspects is writing skill. Writing skill is an important part of communication or discourse. Moreover, writing has faced many difficulties through the process of learning. One of these difficulties is using cohesive devices in writing an English text in order to make it wellstructured for readers. Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that structure a text together and gives it meaning. It is related to the concept of coherence. However, cohesion has two main kinds: one is grammatical cohesion and second is lexical cohesion. The former one is based on structural content and the later one is based on lexical content. These dices are linking words, connectors, discourse markers, which show relationship between paragraphs or text. (Halliday and Hassan, 1976 Cohesion in English London: Longman). This study is going to investigate the difficulties which face foreign learners of English language in using cohesive deices in their writing English. A. Statement of the Problem The researcher noticed that the foreign learners of English language exactly (2nd year at University of Bahri college of Education, Department of English language and Literature 2022) have difficulties in using cohesive devices in their writing and communication in English. Using cohesive devices is very important in English Writing and discourse communication. If the students don’t know how to use these devices, they may make mistakes in structure of English writing, this may result into linguistic different points of view:
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