Thème :
Investigating the Impact of Vocabulary Shortage on EFL Learners’ Writing Skills: The Case of First Year Students at Badji Mokhtar University- Annaba
Présentation :
The current study investigates the impact of vocabulary shortage on EFL learners’ writing skills. Its main objective is to find out to what extent the lack of vocabulary affects the students’ writing abilities. Therefore, we collected data via a questionnaire which was administered to 42 first year students in the department of English at Badji Mokhtar University of Annaba aiming at exploring their vocabulary and writing problems and finding solutions for them. The results showed that the participants do really suffer from vocabulary competence handicaps ranging from recognizing the word’s part of speech, and word usage, to word memorization. This hinders their writing achievements and complicates their writing productions. First year students are struggling to expand their vocabulary store in order to come up with good writing pieces. Based on these findings, the study recommends a warm and friendly atmosphere in the classroom with a diverse tasks and interesting topics, raising the learners’ awareness about vocabulary learning strategies, and activating their background knowledge about the topics under discussionthrough the prewriting activities for better teaching vocabulary, and thus ameliorating the students’ writing productions.
Keywords: Vocabulary shortage; Writing productions; Investigate; Difficulties