Challenges University Students Faced in Their Online Paragraph Writing

Abstract

The study aimed to explore the challenges that faced Ajloun National University EFL students through their online paragraph writing course using Microsoft Teams. 40 second-year EFL students participated in the study. They completed a 10-item questionnaire at the end of an online paragraph writing course. Means and standard deviation for the type and number of challenges were calculated. The Independent Sample t- Test was applied. The results showed that they faced five challenges: inability to focus, lack of interaction, problems getting knowledge, cooperating with classmates, and placing distractions. Based on the results of the study some recommendations for teaching and learning online paragraph writing were suggested.