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Abstract
Writing in English is one of the language skills that are thought in the context of learning English as a Foreign Language in Uzbekistan pre intermediate students. In general, most of the students think that writing is the most difficult part of the four skills. This research provides at finding out the main difficulties in writing faced by the intermediate students and the efforts made by their teacher to overcome those problems. To obtain the data, document collection showed that the highest percentages of problems faced by the students were in the aspect of language use and the least problems were in the aspect of content. The results showed that the most common correcting efforts made by the teacher were giving written feedback for all aspects of writing language use, mechanics vocabulary, organization, and content. Likewise, writing instructors changed systemized forms of feedback and make it clear to students improving their writing skills.
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