The purposes of this research are 1). to study the difficulties of English writing for assignment of English program students of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University and 2) to find out the way of solution of the difficulties about English writing for assignment of English program students of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. The method applying for this research is qualitative.  The population of the research is ninety-seven students who are attending English program (Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Buddhism) for this research. Sample of the study for this research is 50students and 8 key informants for lecturers. After an analysis of the data collection, the finding revealed that there were thirty-eight students from Myanmar in this research. Eight students are from Vietnam. The rest of four students are from Laos India, Bangladesh and China. The total number of the students are fifty in this research. Regardless of the gender, forty-five students are male respondents and the rest of five are female respondents. Total number of the respondents are fifty.

Results of this thesis were:

1. As regard to the results of the difficulties of English writing for assignment, many students gave different answers but the most difficulties for them were grammatical problems. Many students stated about the rules of grammar. In the results, their teacher also said many students cannot write proper in their assignment. They didn’t understand sentence structures, clauses and phrases when they were writing the assignment. In addition, they also didn’t have enough information related to the topic. It is also a problem for them. Some students said that they know the grammar but they cannot write the assignment assigned by their teachers. It means they also have a lack of reading problems. Some students also answer that many lecturers give many assignments but they didn’t give any instruction how to write. But only a few students said that writing assignment is not difficult for them and easy or difficult assignment depending on the topic. Some students state that they are afraid of grammatical mistake so it hesitates them to write. Although some students know grammar but they didn’t know how to write a paragraph such as introduction, main idea, supporting idea, conclusion and so on. The finding results from the key informants they said that students have poor writing problems. Some students even didn’t know the sentences when they write assignment. The key informants said many students seem to weak grammar, vocabulary and reading skills.

2. In the section of solution for improvement of English writing skills, key informants suggest the methods of writing an assignment that can be helpful for the respondents’ English writing skills. These findings are very helpful for the students in writing the assignment. After collecting the interview results from the key informants who gave the methods of writing an assignment and analyzing its contents, the results appear that respondents first need to study a grammatical rule so that they can write the sentence correctly in their assignment. Second, students need to build their vocabulary in order to be helpful when writing the assignment. Third, students need to read the English books, articles, newspapers, Magazine, scholars’ articles and thesis and so forth. Furthermore, reading the books the related subjects or topic assigned by their teacher is also important to overcome the difficulty of writing assignment.  Because reading and writing must go together. They cannot separate each other. Furthermore, practice is also essential to develop their writing skill. The students should continuously practice their writing when they have free time at the temple or home. Going to the library is also important as a student to find some methods of writing assignment. The above mentioned suggestions by the key informants are very useful for students to progress the writing assignment. The solution will be helpful for students in writing their assignment if the students applied these ideas.

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