EFL Student and Supervisor Perceptions of the Difficulties in Writing Undergraduate Thesis Results and Discussion Section

Linuwih, Endar Rachmawaty and Setiawan, Slamet and Munir, Ahmad (2021) EFL Student and Supervisor Perceptions of the Difficulties in Writing Undergraduate Thesis Results and Discussion Section. In: ICONESIA 2021 : 2nd International Conference on English Studies In Indonesia 2021, 17-18 November 2021, English Department, Universitas Trunojoyo Madura.

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Abstract

In an undergraduate study, writing a thesis is one of the requirements to be fulfilled by the students. Numerous studies have revealed that students often struggle with this genre. Most studies have focused on the student and supervisor perceptions on student difficulties in writing the thesis as a whole instead of a particular section. The current study examined student challenges in writing the results and discussion section of their thesis through in-depth interviews with three students and three supervisors. The study revealed that the students’ understanding of the function of results and discussion section was more limited than their supervisor. This study also found that the students had limited understanding of the nature and cause of their difficulties compared to their supervisors. The results of the study emerged new understanding that students encountered issues to achieve the requirements of the genre and the supervisors had a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of these difficulties than the students had. For future research, it is suggested to identify the writing difficulties in students’ written text to recognize the specific causes of the difficulties experienced by students.

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