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An Assessment of Factors That Affect <Writing Performance of English Language and Literature Regular Students’ at Kebri Dehar University>

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The main objective of this study was to assess the factors that affect writing performance of English Language and Literature regular students at Kebri Dehar University. The study used a mixed method that involves quantitative and qualitative methods. Questionnaire, interview and document review were used to gather the necessary data for the study. Four writing instructors and seventy English language and literature regular students were the subject of the study; and they were chosen in purposely and comprehensively in respectively. Thus, descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages were employed in analyzing the quantitative data. The qualitative data were analyzed in sentence description. Researcher used primary data sources to collect the data. A primary data source is an original data source which is one in that the data are collected firsthand by the researcher for a specific research purpose. In the analyzed data the findings of the study indicated lack of interest in writing, lack of wide reading habit, lack of writing background knowledge, fear of making mistake are some of the factors that affect students’ writing performance. Based on the result of the study recommendations have been made to solve the failure of students’ writing performance particular focusing on English language and literature regular students at Kebri Dehar University.

Published in Science Journal of Education (Volume 8, Issue 6)
DOI 10.11648/j.sjedu.20200806.12
Page(s) 139-146
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  • Department of English Language and Literature, Kebri Dehar University, Korahe, Ethiopia

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