Iraqi EFL University Students' Problems in Writing Composition

Teaching is one of the productive skills of the English language that is writing skill mostly involves developing the students'' linguistic competence which many English Second Language instructors may perceive as a challenging assignment. The point of this study is to look into different challenges encountered by Iraqi English Foreign Language students when writing compositions in the context of Kufa University. The data for the study were collected through interviews with undergraduate students and their Teachers. The interview section involved 15 undergraduate students (male=7 Female=8) and 5 Teachers who held PhD degrees (male=3 female=2). Also the researcher distributed a writing task to 70 respondents to reveal their suffering towards the causes of academic writing problems. Students were given a writing task about a literary topic. The use of computers as writing instruments has not only had a significant impact on the writing practice and the attitudes toward writing but it has also created modern possibilities for writing research. Another task was given to the students with the keystroke logging process.