Factors affecting the ability to write essays in English of second-year students majoring in English at Nam Can Tho University

Writing is considered an important skill. For second-year students majoring in English at Nam Can Tho University, writing essays in English is a mandatory subject. However, in the process of writing essays, students encounter many difficulties. To find out the difficulties and find solutions, 28 questions designed on a Likert scale were used for analysis with the participation of 100 second-year students and 100 senior students majoring in English language for comparison.