ESL/EFL Students Attitude toward Research Report Writing in Higher Education: A Literature Review

Focus of this article is on reviewing literatures of students’ attitude toward research report writing. The authors of this review asked questions regarding the students’ attitude toward library resources, searching references, and paraphrasing other works as well as citing author’s ideas. This article classifies research questions in terms of the factors that English as a Second Language Students (ESL) and/or English as Foreign Language (EFL) students find difficult when they write a research report in Higher Education.

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