JoEELE
Vol 2, No 1, January (2023): Journal of Excellence in English Language Education

Students’ Difficulties in Writing Thesis Background

Thahirah Thahirah (Universitas Negeri Makassar)
Maemuna Muhayyang (Universitas Negeri Makassar)
Amra Ariyani (Universitas Negeri Makassar)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Feb 2023

Abstract

The aim of this research is to find out the students’ difficulties, the most common difficulties faced by students, and how the students overcome the difficulties in writing thesis background. The participants of this research were eight students in the English education study program of UNM in the academic year 2018. The method of this research was a descriptive qualitative design with interviews and documents as the instrument for collecting data. The result of this research showed three points as follows: 1) The difficulties encountered by the students of the English Education study program at Universitas Negeri Makassar are: a) writing and organizing ideas, b) Novelty, c) Importance, d) lack of vocabulary and e) Grammar. 2) The most common difficulties encountered by the students are writing and organizing ideas. This difficulty arises because there is still a lack of ability to write and understand what should be included in the background. 3) Their way to solve the difficulties they faced when writing a thesis background was three events namely; a) working independently, b) developing or joining a community of practice, and c) working with the supervisor.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JoEELE

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

JoEELE: Journal of Excellence in English Language Education is an international peer-reviewed and open-access journal in language education. The aim is to publish conceptual and research articles that explore the application of any language in teaching and the everyday experience of language in ...