Perception of Difficulties and Learners’ Reasons in Academic Writing: A Self-Imposed Prophecy

As a writing teacher, i find teaching most challenging. To begin with, skills are not meant to be taught, and students cannot just “know how write” after they had attended lessons on skills. Writing is process. Learners may master one process easier than others. Academic fear many undergraduates face when enter higher institution. make matters worse, learners “acquire” their for in high schools. When universities, the difficulties of reach different level- especially those who already feared essay One see academic universities as unresolved from schools this snowballed into universities. This study done explore among undergraduates. quantitative investigate if there relationship between beliefs, expectations, behaviour results it comes writers’ perception difficulty. 373 participants were purposely chosen participate study. They public university Malaysia semester writing. The instrument used survey. A summary findings showed interesting information reasons why difficult. also revealed sources influence learners.