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Item FACTORSTHATAFFECTSTUDENTSINTERPERSONALCOMMUNICATIONIN THE CLASS ROOM : SECOND YEAR ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDENTS IN FOCUS.(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-06) TIGST TESHOMEThis research paper dealt about the factors that affect students' interpersonal communication. It focused on second year English language and literature students' in Wolkite University. The objective of the study was to investigate the major factors that affect students' interpersonal communication. The researcher used to conduct this data from the students or participants' by using questionnaire , interview and observation in order to get an appropriate finding ,availability sampling /non-sampling technique system was used .The researcher uses both qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis . The study shows that, the students' have interest to communicate and interact with each other‟s through English language in the class when they do different activities with their friends . But, some barriers like mother tongue language and the variety of language affect their interpersonal communication as well as their relationship. Also, factors like language, culture difference, cultural influence, technological issues, and noise, power and gender issues are the major barriers which affected students' interpersonal communicationItem The Impact of Cultural Diversity in Interpersonal Communication with Particular Reference to Wolkite University College of social Sciences and Humanities Graduating Class Students.(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-06) Belaynesh ZefineItem Assessing Second Year English Language Major Students’ Attitudes Towards Using English As A Medium Of Communication In TheClassroom: The Case Of Wolkite University Students(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-03) Kamila A/Zinab, KamilaThe study aimed at assessing second year English language and literature students’ attitudes towards using English as a medium of communication in the classroom level. 12 students were participant of the study. Comprehensive and purposive sampling techniques were applied to select the participants for questionnaire, and interview, respectively. 12 questions were distributed to the students to gather quantitative and qualitative data. Interview (semi structured) was conducted with six students to get qualitative data and finally analyzed by the researcher. The data that gathered through closed-ended questionnaire was analyzed quantitatively by using percentage and tabulation. The data that gathered through open-ended questionnaire and interview was analyzed through the qualitative and quantitative method. The finding of this study revealed that most of the second year English language and literature students have positive attitudes towards using English language as a medium of communication.Item AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES OF STUDENTS’ PARAGRAPH LEVEL WRITING: WOLKITE UNIVERISTY, SECOND YEAR ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITRATURE STUDENTS IN FOCUS(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-06) FIRNESH LEGESSEThe main objective of this study is to assess the practices and challenges students’ paragraph writing. The study is carried out in wolkite university special reference to second year English language and literature major student in focus. The researcher is employed 12 students to fill questioner. In order to achieve the objectives, the study employed three data gathering tools: closed-ended and open-ended questionnaires, interview for teachers and document analysis. The questionnaire is employed to identify student student’s response by figures and descriptive method. The document analysis, which used to find out student’s paragraph writing problems and identify factor that affects the quality of paragraph written by students. Furthermore, the interview is employed to identify what the writing teachers were doing when they teach paragraph writing, challenges, that hinder students in paragraph level writing. All the data collected using different tools were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively .the study identified the major paragraph writing challenges students encountered. These are problem of organization, unity, process, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and spelling. in addition ,factors that were affecting student’ paragraph writing were divided into students related factors like lack of knowledge of strategic use, students writing apprehension, shortage of vocabulary and lack of regular practice, and teachers related factors such as teachers’ ways of giving feedback. Therefore, since paragraph writing is a skill that could be improved through sufficient practicing, second year major English language and literature students should be practice a lot and use grammatical rules for good paragraph writing.