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Machida, Naoko; Dalsky, David J. – English Language Teaching, 2014
Research on anxiety in a foreign language-learning context is well-documented; however, few studies have directly focused on anxiety occurring within writing contexts despite the fact that writing anxiety is known to affect students' learning. The present study examined the effectiveness of concept mapping considering students' writing anxiety.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Writing Apprehension
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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
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Foroutan, Maryam; Noordin, Nooreen – English Language Teaching, 2012
ESL/EFL Anxiety has been reported as one of the foremost factors affecting ESL learners' performance. Hence, identifying methods to assist language learners to alleviate their ESL anxiety deserve to be considered by the educators. This study compared the effect of dialogue journal writing (DJW) through two different modes of learning and teaching:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning