In many research studies in the contexts of Applied Linguistics and English
Language Teaching as EFL it has been argued that among the four language skills
(i.e., listening, speaking, reading, and writing), writing is one of the most
problematic and difficult to learn and use. One may experience the same difficulties
in his/her own language because writing is a skill which is learned at school.
Therefore, “problems and difficulties are magnified in the case of writing in a
second or foreign language” (Enginarlar, 1990:2).