Innovation in Language Learning

It is commonly known that EFL learners need to be skillful enough at the four language skills i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing to have a good command in the target language. Teaching/learning how to write in a foreign language is not an easy task for EFL teachers and learners, alike. Though countless research and efforts have been done by researchers and teachers to develop the writing skill among these learners, many EFL students still face a number of serious difficulties that prohibit them from constructing satisfactory essay writing. Actually, the present article aims primary to identify EFL learners essay writing difficulties together with the sources associated with them in an attempt to find out the possible solutions towards achieving better essay writing. The data regarding the topic in question were collected by means of questionnaire, interview and students’ essay writing analysis. The attained data reveal that students meet difficulties in both coherence and cohesion due to the lack of reading and low writing practice. In hope to remedy and decrease these difficulties, attention to these sources is needed.