English Focus: Journal of English Language Education
Vol 4 No 2 (2021)

EFL Obstacles in Writing Thesis Proposal

Ari Prasetyaningrum (Universitas Hamzanwadi)
Laila Wati (Universitas Hamzanwadi)
Siti Ayu Surayya (Universitas Hamzanwadi)
Maman Asrobi (Universitas Hamzanwadi)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Nov 2021

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the students’ obstacles when writing a thesis proposal. Subjects of this study were 20 learners in the English Language Education Study Program at Hamzanwadi University in the academic year 2020-2021. The data were collected by using a questionnaire with 27 items to obtain students’ opinions about their problems in writing a thesis proposal. A descriptive quantitative design was used in this research. Having revealed the research analysis, it was found that the participants experienced four types of obstacles: 1) describing data analysis (40 %), 2) finding relevant references (60 %), 3) lack of vocabulary (50 %), and 4) writing theoretical and framework (45 %). To solve the learners’ problems in accomplishing the thesis proposal, there are some suggestions. Students should learn more about grammar and practice how to arrange qualified thesis and read various books to get new vocabulary. The advisors should give a detailed and specific explanation to make sure the students understand the explanation.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

efj

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

English Focus was launched with the intention to make quality research output available for scholars in the field of language education. Although the focus is primarily on research on language education, we will also consider papers in other areas of applied linguistics such as language testing as ...