Indentification of Challenges in Teaching Writing to Ecuadorian Efl Students

Teaching writing to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students revolves around developing a linguistic and communicative competence. Resultantly, English teachers generally face pedagogical difficulties, which have resulted in teaching challenges. This exploratory study seeks to identify the obstacles that Ecuadorian teachers face when teaching Writing to university students. according structured interviews, data was collected from ten English teachers working in different public universities in Ecuador. Through a descriptive analysis, the researchers were able to identify students and teachers-related factors that make teaching writing challenging for teachers. The students-related factors include English  language competency, Spanish language interference, and students’ lack of motivation to write in English, whereas the teacher-related factors include the teaching practices.  Furthermore, this research results can help teachers and to improve the writing teaching administrators of writing in their respective institutions.