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Download full textCocuk, Halil Erdem; Yanpar Yelken, Tugba; Ozer, Omer – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Problem Statement: Writing is important in secondary schools because it underpins the performance of students in most examinations. Writing disposition, which specifically deals with the aspects of students' attitudes toward writing, has also been studied by some researchers. Purpose of the Study: This study reports on the result of a study on the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Writing (Composition), Secondary School Students, Scores
Güler, Nese; Ilhan, Mustafa; Güneyli, Ahmet; Demir, Süleyman – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
This study evaluates the psychometric properties of three different forms of the Writing Apprehension Test (WAT; Daly & Miller, 1975) through Rasch analysis. For this purpose, the fit statistics and correlation coefficients, and the reliability, separation ratio, and chi-square values for the facets of item and person calculated for the…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory, Tests
Direct linkArquero, Jose Luis; Fernández-Polvillo, Carmen; Valladares-García, Dolores – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The literature evidences the effects of communication apprehension (CA), defined as the level of fear and anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication, on educational efforts and suggests that (via the perceived desirability of certain professions) it could affect vocational choices. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Iran-Nejad, Asghar; Xu, Yuejin; Mansouri, Behzad – Research in the Schools, 2013
Reported in this article was an experiment in which 143 undergraduates in an educational psychology course were encouraged to engage in the performance learning activity (PLA) of "seeking their own revelations (or insights) and reflecting on them in writing." The hypothesis, grounded in the biofunctionally-based, first-person…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Undergraduate Students, Educational Psychology, Learning Activities
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)
Spain, Linda Monk – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study investigated writing apprehension, motivational levels, and writing performance of 68 undergraduates enrolled in four freshman composition courses during one semester. Participants in the treatment groups received relevance, confidence, or a combination of relevance and confidence motivational strategies based on Keller's ARCS model. In…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Student Motivation, Writing Achievement, Freshman Composition
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
