TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo " Student writing process, perceptions, problems, and strategies in writing academic essays in a second language: A case study "

When studying in Australia, international students in general and Vietnamese students in particular meet many difficulties, one of which is writing academis essays/assignments in English. The current case study, applying the cognitivist view, aims at exploring the problems as well as the process of writing academic assignments of a particular Vietnamese student studying at an Australian university. Based on the coding scheme applied by Cumming [1989] and Bosher [1998], the study specifically addresses three major questions: . | VNU Journal of Science Foreign Languages 24 2008 184-197 Student writing process perceptions problems and strategies in writing academic essays in a second language A case study Luong Quynh Trang Nguyen Thi Mai Hoa Department of English - American Language and Culture College of Foreign Languages Vietnam National University Hanoi Pham Van Dong Street Cau Giay Hanoi Vietnam Received 19 May 2008 Abstract. When studying in Australia international students in general and Vietnamese students in particular meet many difficulties one of which is writing academis essays assignments in English. The current case study applying the cognitivist view aims at exploring the problems as well as the process of writing academic assignments of a particular Vietnamese student studying at an Australian university. Based on the coding scheme applied by Cumming 1989 and Bosher 1998 the study specifically addresses three major questions 1 How does the student perceive the requirements of the academic essay 2 What does he actually do in the process of writing 3 What are the problems he encounters and strategies he used during the process of writing the essay in English Data relevant for the study was collected by means of in-depth interviews stimulated recall and interpretation of the student s written products. Data analysis has shown that the subject did not pay much attention to grammatical errors or spelling mistakes and he met many problems and used a lot of strategies to solve them. 1. Introduction Second language L2 composition research and teaching have developed and matured to a great extent for the last few decades Roca de Larios Murphy Marin 1 . L2 composition specialists have found guidance however in first language L1 composition research which has a history dating to the early 1900 Haynes 1978 as cited in Krapels 2 . After the mid twentieth century L1 composition research in English Corresponding author. Tel. 84-4-8255103 E-mail luongquynhtrang@ speaking countries .

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