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This study investigated this issue to understand the challenges faced by EFL learners. The purpose of this study is to clarify the difficulties in using academic words, word usage, and factors affecting the choice of academic words to use in essay writing. This research included 53 students majoring in English Studies, course 44, of a university in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Through 53 questionnaires and 5 interview samples, the study has collected data for analysis. As a finding, this study revealed three main problems for EFL learners. Firstly, the difficulty of an academic vocabulary has affected learners' word memorization and application of academic words in essay writing. Secondly, the way to choose effective academic words to use is to create a rich vocabulary for yourself, use it regularly and improve your self-study ability. Finally, the vocabulary level of the learners and the topic are two factors that seriously affect the choice of academic words to use and the quality of the essay. In short, this study has discovered remarkable issues about the difficulties of students in the process of choosing academic words in essay writing.\u003Cbr>Keywords: academic words, challenges, writing essay, EFL learners |  |\n| --- | --- |\n|  |  |\n\n1. Introduction  \nLearning English may have a huge impact on us because it helps us to grow in all aspects of our life such as knowledge, work, communication, etc. EFL learners who learn and use English still have many problems to overcome and master different skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, and so on. However, like other skills, writing is also an important skill and causes some challenges for learners. Of all issues related to writing, facing the difficulty in choosing academic words would be the hardest one in writing an essay.  \nAcademic words are typically uncommon and hard to remember. However, academic words play an important role in writing. Especially, in the context of today's developed society, the development of using academic vocabulary should be promoted by learners. The use of academic words helps English learners or users express themselves better while writing, which allows the reader to easily understand or capture the writer's thoughts. This research entitled \"The EFL learners' challenges of choosing academic words in writing an essay\" would be essential for EFL learners. It represents one of the problems that learners face in writing an essay. For most learners, the ability to use English fluently, grammatically, and correctly has not yet been recognized. It has been assumed that a variety of academic usage in terms of vocabulary and the right choice of words in writing an essay would be highly classified for writing fluency.  \nAccording to Al-Mukdad (2019), learners have faced many difficulties in writing an essay. Some learners often use common words in communication which leads to the lack of using academic words in writing an essay. Besides, in the study of Afzal (2019), some problems with the process of learning academic vocabulary are also a problem faced by learners. Learners may have a chance to learn English academic vocabulary but only at the surface level, not deep learning. Especially, learners only know one or some meanings ofa word, but rather do not know how to use it in other cases. Therefore, using academic words is not commonly utilized by writers. The language users may encounter the situation of expressing or using the phrase or words in the wrong context or with different collocations (Ashraf et al., 2020) . Finally, academic words are not commonly used because academic words are hard to remember, and require good writing skills and high learner awareness.","cbCailCNZr0v1U9k","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailCNZr0v1U9k","pdf",644928,"English","# Introduction\n# Literature review\n## Writing","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study investigates the challenges EFL learners face when choosing and using academic words in essay writing, including word usage difficulties and influencing factors.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the researchers collect data?\",\"answer\":\"The study collected data through 53 questionnaires and five interview samples from English Studies students.\"},{\"question\":\"Which factors affect EFL learners’ choice of academic words?\",\"answer\":\"Vocabulary level and the essay topic are identified as two factors that seriously affect learners’ choice of academic words and the resulting essay quality.\"}]","Challenges Faced by EFL Students in Choosing Academic Words for Essay Writing | PDF",1790631632,23]