Advanced Language Learners’ Difficulties in Writing: Case of MBIM M’sila Private School

Abstract

This scientific research aims to discover the difficulties that English language learners of an advanced level may face when writing academically or even informally to put the writing skill in progress. This inquiry has been accomplished using two research instruments, a learners’ questionnaire addressed to advanced English language learners and ask them to write a short paragraph as an assignment to be corrected and analyzed. The results were about the students do have difficulties and face problems when writing, which are: difficulties to express ideas and organize them, formulate correct sentences, the appropriate use of the parts of speech and the logical connectors, spelling mistakes, agreements (subject-verb and noun- pronoun agreement), prepositions, punctuation and capitalization. To eliminate these mistakes and pass some difficulties, some recommendations have been stated at the end of this research.