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Investigating high schoolers’ L2 writing anxiety, L2 writing self-efficacy, L2 writing self-regulated strategies, and L2 writing engagement: Relationships and mediator [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
This study used a structural equation modeling approach to investigate the relationships among L2 writing anxiety, L2 writing self-efficacy, L2 writing self-regulated strategies and L2 writing engagement, and possible mediators that regulate the effect ...
Jie Zhou, Jie Zhou, Shusheng Wang, Junju Wang   +3 more
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The Impact of Academic Procrastination on Second Language Writing: The Mediating Role of L2 Writing Anxiety [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the exploration of psychological properties in a second language context. Considerable literature has grown up around the influence of these psychological properties on L2 writing specifically. However, the
Chen Zhang, Wenzhong Zhang
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Critical Thinking, Writing Strategy Use, L2 Writing Anxiety and L2 Writing Performance: What are the Relations? [PDF]

Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2020
The present study examined relationships among critical thinking, writing strategy use, second/foreign language (L2) writing anxiety, and L2 writing performance of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners.
Elahe Saedpanah, Mohammad Hadi Mahmoodi
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How AI literacy predicts L2 Chinese writing engagement: the mediating roles of anxiety and enjoyment [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionIn the era of Generative AI, the focus of second language (L2) writing research has shifted toward how learners’ AI literacy shapes their affective experiences and engagement.
Chenrui Miao, Jingyao Shi, Jili Jiang
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Cognitive Demands and Emotional Responses in L2 Writing: How Task Complexity and Task-Specific Emotions Shape Learners’ Performance [PDF]

Behavioral Sciences
This study examined the complex relationships among task complexity, task-specific emotions, and learners’ L2 writing performance. Sixty-one Chinese EFL learners were divided into two groups and completed two writing tasks in a counterbalanced order ...
Yue Wang, Yunmei Sun, Wen Ke
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The predictive effects of individual difference factors on L2 writing complexity, accuracy, and fluency [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Drawing on the control-value theory and the individual-environmental model of writing, this study investigated the predictive effects of various individual difference factors (i.e., L2 writing grit, enjoyment, anxiety, motivation, and working memory) on ...
Zihan Gao, Zihan Gao
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Is it all bad? Saudi EFL student perceptions of the role of anxiety when writing [PDF]

Saudi Journal of Language Studies, 2022
Purpose – The study aims to ascertain the degree to which Saudi tertiary level writers experience foreign language (FL), English, writing anxiety compared with other variables known to affect writing, such as motivation, types of self-efficacy or teacher
Salah Alfarwan
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Self-efficacy in AI-assisted L2 academic writing: scale development and validation [PDF]

BMC Psychology
Background The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has fundamentally reshaped the landscape of second language (L2) academic writing, introducing novel demands on learners’ competencies and psychological resources.
Guangyuan Yao, Lingxi Fan
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AI-assisted academic writing in medical postgraduate education: a cross-sectional study of L2 challenges, affective barriers, and instructional implications [PDF]

BMC Medical Education
Second language (L2) academic writing has become increasingly critical for postgraduate students in non-English speaking contexts, particularly in specialized disciplines such as medicine.
Yinpeng Ren, Ran Gao, Shuguang Zhang, Hua Kang   +3 more
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AI chatbots in L2 writing: anxiety, usefulness, and writing outcome

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Second language writing is a challenging skill often hindered by high cognitive demands and writing anxiety, which negatively affect learner confidence and performance, highlighting the urgent need to investigate how emerging AI tools can support and ...
Asma Almusharraf
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