Academic writing, as one of writing genres in writing skill that is considered defining language learners’ success in both learning and career promotion, is being paid close attention to teachers and students. As a result, it remains a challenging task for teachers to employ some strategies regarding how to achieve enhanced results in teaching academic writing. Besides, many obstacles commonly hinder the teaching process. This study aims to investigate teachers’ strategies and the obstacles that were faced together with the solutions in teaching academic writing. The discussion is limited to focus on text and focus on process strategies. Focus on text strategies are teaching strategies which pay close attention to students’ knowledge on some linguistic features including text type, rhetorical convention, academic register, and linguistic accuracy. While focus on process strategies are teaching strategies which tend to emphasize on some stages in students’ writing process including pre-writing, planning, drafting, reviewing, and refinement