SOLUTIONS TO GET STUDENTS MORE ENGAGED IN ONLINE LEARNING OF WRITING AT HA NOI OPEN UNIVERSIY DURING COVID 19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has spread globally and has significantly affected to all
areas including the education and training field. Facing these challenges, Hanoi Open University
has also implemented online learning to promptly respond to the complicated developments of the
COVID-19 epidemic. However, the reality shows that, in the process of implementing this activity,
students still face many difficulties and barriers, especially in online learning of writing. Through
an online survey with 291 students at the Faculty of English, Hanoi Open University, the results
clearly showed that psychological, environmental, and learning media/devices are considered as
the main reasons that make students face many obstacles in learning writing online. Therefore,
based on this result, the article will propose some practical solutions to increase the interest in
online learning in writing to achieve better results in the future.