As dificuldades de escrita identificadas nas produções de alunos do IV bloco do curso de letras inglês

Abstract

This research focused on the investigation of the difficulties of writing in the English language by students of the English Language Course, Level IV. This study had as objective to raise the difficulties of writing found by the students of LI of the Course of English Letters of the State University of Piauí-UESPI, Level IV, in writing texts in English. The theoretical framework was based on authors such as Mendes and Brunoni (2015), Antunes (2014) and Santos e Barbosa (2015). In order to reach the research objective, the methodology used was Field Research, whose data were collected through a structured questionnaire applied to students, as well as the analysis of texts produced by them. The results obtained from the students' questionnaire revealed that most of the students find difficulties in writing texts, mainly in relation to vocabulary, grammar and spelling. The analysis of the texts produced by the students evidenced frequent presence of punctuation, spelling, grammar and vocabulary errors