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Write at least 150 words.
Then, the students’ texts were analyzed, in terms of the four criteria of assessment for Task 1 of IELTS Academic Module Writing.
Note: For detecting the problems of students in each aspect, the researcher used two symbols: V and X. The symbol of V means that the respondent had
fulfilled what was needed and the symbol of X means that the respondent had a problem with that aspect. PS stands for Possible Solution.
4.1.1 In terms of Task Achievement
Task achievement covers several aspects: interpreting the task IT, summarizing significant features of the graph SF, including key data to support
the summary KD, using complete sentencesnot using bullets CS, and writing at least 150 words WW
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No. Name
Task Achievement IT
SF KD
CS WW
1 R1
V V
V V
V 2
R2 V
X V
V V
3 R3
V V
V V
V 4
R4 V
X V
V V
5 R5
V X
V V
V 6
R6 V
X V
V V
7 R7
V V
V V
V 8
R8 V
X V
V X
9 R9
V X
V V
X ∑
6 2
As can be seen on the table above, the students had difficulty in summarizing significant features of the graph and writing the minimum length of
words.
4.1.1.1 Summarizing significant features
R2, like R4, R5, R6, R8, and R9 had problems with it. They did not summarize the significant features of the graph; they tended to put the details. For
example, R2 wrote: •
The parts of the world who had higher global wealth than percentages of population were North America 34 Global wealth and just 6
population, Rich Asia-Pacific 24 Global wealth and just 5 population and Europe 30 global wealth and 15 number of
population.
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PS: The parts of the world that had higher percentages of global wealth than
that of population were North America, Rich Asia-Pacific and Europe.
• The other part of the world, who had a higher percentages population than
the percentages of Global Wealth were other Asia Pacific population 16 and just 4 Global wealth, Africa pop. 10 and 2 for global wealth
and latin America Caribbean 8 for population and less 5 for Global wealth.
PS: On the other hand, the parts of the world that had higher percentages of
population than that of global wealth were other Asia-Pacific countries, Africa, Latin America Caribbean.
• And there were two countries with sama situation, China and India, China
had 24 percentages of population but just had less 5 Global wealth; and India had 16 population yet had just 1 global wealth.
PS: And there were two countries with the same situation, China and India.
Both China and India had higher percentages of population than that of global wealth.
4.1.1.2 Fulfilling the minimum length of words R8 and R9 wrote underlength texts. The minimum length of the text was 150
words but they wrote 84 words and 129 words respectively.
4.1.2 In terms of Coherence and Cohesion
