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Khabooshan, Hanieh Soltani; Saeedirad, Mohamad Ali – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
This study investigated the relationship between four different types of personality, namely extroversion versus introversion, sensing versus intuition, thinking versus feeling, judging versus perceiving and writing anxiety. To collect the data, 325 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students were randomly selected from several universities to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Personality Traits, Writing Apprehension
Arindra, Margaretha Yola; Ardi, Priyatno – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
Writing anxiety may occur if students are expected to write excellently. To assist the students in minimizing their writing anxiety, teachers can introduce rubrics to the students prior to accomplishing writing tasks. The present study intended to investigate the levels of students' second language writing anxiety and students' use of writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Apprehension, Writing Attitudes, Scoring Rubrics
Aloairdhi, Nafilah M. – English Language Teaching, 2019
Writing is an important skill in language learning and in academic achievement. The level of writing anxiety could affect students' achievements positively or negatively. This research aimed to examine the writing anxiety among Saudi female learners enrolled in English language departments at some Saudi universities. It also aimed to identify the…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Aslim Yetis, Veda – International Education Studies, 2017
Conducted on French Language Teaching students, this research aims to determine the causes of writing anxiety. Designed in accordance with the mixed method, a writing anxiety inventory, a language proficiency exam, a retrospective composing-process questionnaire, a writing attitude scale and semi-structured interviews were used. After identifying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, French
Liu, Yuanyuan – English Language Teaching, 2020
Writing anxiety is one of the most essential factors influencing language learning. The current study is to explore the effect of sentence-making practice on reducing writing anxiety of two classes of adult EFL learners, one in low-intermediate level (LI learners), the other in high-intermediate level (HI learners). Two classes received two-week…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Jee, Min Jung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This study investigated Korean heritage language (KHL) learners' foreign language classroom anxiety, reading anxiety and writing anxiety using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) by Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope, the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) by Saito, Garza and Horwitz and the Writing Apprehension Test (WAT) by…
Descriptors: Korean, Heritage Education, Anxiety, Correlation
Singh, Termit Kaur Ranjit; Rajalingam, Saravana Kumar – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine the level of writing apprehension and how writing apprehension level and writing self-efficacy beliefs influences writing proficiency level among pre-university students. Participants were 320 pre-university students from a northern region college offering this programme. All the respondents were…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Self Efficacy
Gkonou, Christina – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
The assumption that foreign language learners experience a high level of anxiety mainly when faced with speaking activities implies that research should focus on those learners prone to anxiety over that skill. Despite not being widely investigated, foreign language writing anxiety also seems to be a concern for a large number of students. Drawing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Chuo, Tun-Whei Isabel – TESL-EJ, 2007
This study investigated the effects of the WebQuest Writing Instruction (WQWI) program on Taiwanese EFL learners' writing performance, writing apprehension, and perception of web-resource integrated language learning. Participants were students from two junior college classes. One class received traditional classroom writing instruction and the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Rubin, Bella; Katznelson, Helen; Perpignan, Hadara – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2005
This case study examined the learning outcomes of three learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) enrolled in different Writing for Academic Purposes courses. Of the many learning outcomes observed, some express self-perceived intrapersonal and interpersonal changes, which in previous research have been named "by-products" of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Case Studies, Outcomes of Education