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Abstract
This research study sought to find out the main difficulties that EFL learners encounter while producing language and the causes that are related to these challenges, at the department of letters and English language at M‟sila University. A questionnaire was designed for first year students as the main procedure to gather faithful data. The obtained results showed that learners face different types of difficulties among them: to the lack of vocabulary, grammar, mispronunciation, spelling mistakes, and punctuation. In addition to that, the respondents‟ answers revealed that many psychological factors affect learners such as: low self-confident, demotivation, and anxiety; which are resulted from the lack of practice. The quantitative and descriptive approaches were applied in order to compile results and analyze them. Our study is limited to unveil learners‟ difficulties while producing language hence and any extra obtained data are peripheral, moreover the broad aim of this study is to provide some strategies to improve speaking and writing skills