Abstract:
This study aims at investigating the problems faced by University
students in paragraph writing. The researcher has adopted descriptive
analytical method. Two instruments have been used for collecting data
relevant to the study, namely questionnaire to teachers of English at some
Sudanese Universities and diagnostic test to third year students of English
at Al-Neelain University – College of Arts. The study sample of
questionnaire comprises (30) teachers whereas the sample of diagnostic
test consists of (30) students. The researcher applied SPSS program to
analyze and verify the hypotheses. The results have shown that a major
challenges faced by EFL students is to produce good- quality paragraph
writing. Moreover, students are not able to write well -connected
paragraph due to lack of grammatical construction. The pedagogic value
of paragraph writing has been neglected. The study has recommended
that teachers should help students communicate their thoughts and ideas
to others while writing paragraph. Furthermore, the use of reading- into
writing method should be particularly beneficial to students' paragraphwriting
abilities. Some suggestions are also proposed for further studies.
