Essay Writing Activities in Class: Bangladeshi Undergraduates’ Perspectives

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ENGLISH Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.34293/english.v8i4.3340

Iffat Jahan Suchona

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Abstract

Although smart writing skill is equally important in both academic and professional spheres, many Bangladeshi tertiary level learners find writing skills too difficult to be developed. In respect of this, the students are given many writing tasks (such as composing a five-paragraph essay) to improve their competencies in a language classroom. Anyhow, writing a good essay needs several cognitive steps that a student has to go through demanding a high level of motivation and constructive teacher feedback. Considering the fact, this paper has investigated tertiary level Bangladeshi learners’ perspectives about how the essay-writing tasks keep them motivated in class. This pilot project had been conducted using a set of 20 items (quantitative survey questionnaire), which was administered among thirty participants from the Department of English of a reputed Bangladeshi public university. The small-scale research revealed that the majority of the undergraduates stay motivated during the brainstorming part of essay writing tasks. However, many of them find the patterns of essays quite confusing. However, these learners believe more writing assignments, along with effective teacher feedback, can highly encourage them to develop their writing skills.

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课堂上的论文写作活动:孟加拉本科生的观点

尽管聪明的写作技能在学术和专业领域都同样重要，但许多孟加拉国高等教育学生发现写作技能太难培养。在这方面，学生们被赋予了许多写作任务（比如写一篇五段的文章），以提高他们在语言课堂上的能力。无论如何，写一篇好的文章需要几个认知步骤，学生必须经历这些步骤，要求高水平的动机和建设性的教师反馈。考虑到这一事实，本文调查了孟加拉国高等教育学习者对论文写作任务如何使他们在课堂上保持积极性的看法。该试点项目使用了一套20项（定量调查问卷），由孟加拉国一所著名公立大学英语系的30名参与者进行管理。小规模的研究表明，大多数本科生在论文写作任务的头脑风暴部分保持积极性。然而，他们中的许多人发现散文的模式相当混乱。然而，这些学习者相信，更多的写作作业，以及有效的教师反馈，可以极大地鼓励他们发展写作技能。

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ENGLISH LITERATURE-

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期刊介绍： English is an internationally known journal of literary criticism, published on behalf of The English Association. Each issue contains essays on major works of English literature or on topics of general literary interest, aimed at readers within universities and colleges and presented in a lively and engaging style. There is a substantial review section, in which reviewers have space to situate a book within the context of recent developments in its field, and present a detailed argument. English is unusual among academic journals in publishing original poetry. This policy embodies the view that the critical and creative functions, often so widely separated in the teaching of English, can co-exist and cross-fertilise each other.