Investigating the Problems Encountered by EFL Learners in Writing the Descriptive Paragraph

Abstract

The main aim of this study is investigating the " Problems encountered by EFL learners in Writing Descriptive Paragraph". The study has adopted the descriptive analytical approach where data have been collected from students' test and literature review. paragraph. The most common aspects of the problem is the lack of coherence in their produced writing, for most of the students write paragraph with less coherent devises such as (referencing, conjunctions, …etc). The research design a test respective to the aim of investigation, and it was distributed to a number of thirty (30) of primary school pupils and who study English language as a foreign language in Khartoum city. They were asked to write a paragraph that describes something in their daily life. So, the researcher adopted the descriptive analytical approach and the SPSS program, from which the researcher could collect the appropriate date and results. Based on the findings, the researcher has recommended that: as the performance of students in writing proved to be very weak, teachers need to find quick solution of this problem by looking at the most common area of weakness and see how to be improved.