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The Impact of Gender and Proficiency on L2 Writing Anxiety among Algerian EFL Students: Levels, Categories, Causes, and Coping Mechanisms

Acta Educationis Generalis
Introduction: This study investigates L2 writing anxiety among Algerian EFL Master’s students, focusing on anxiety levels, types, causes, coping strategies, and the effects of gender and proficiency.
Tobbi Saida, Behloul Abdellah
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An Investigation of L2 Learners’ Writing Self-Efficacy, Writing Anxiety and Its Causes at Higher Education in Turkey

International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The present study aimed at investigating higher education L2 learners in a Turkish context in terms of writing self-efficacy, writing anxiety, and the causes of writing anxiety. The data have been collected through the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI), developed by Cheng, (2004), and Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI), and ...
Özkan Kırmızı, Gülin Dağdeviren Kırmızı   +1 more
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Task complexity, focus on L2 constructions, and individual differences : a classroom-based study. [PDF]

, 2011
Motivated by cognitive-interactionist frameworks for task-based learning, this study explored whether task complexity affects the extent to which learners focus on form-meaning connections during task-based work in a classroom setting, and whether this ...
Révész, Andrea
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Modeling the Paths from L2 Use and Socio‐Affective Variables to Communication Skills: A Mixed‐Methods Approach

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
wiley   +1 more source

Multilinguals’ language choice for mental calculation [PDF]

, 2007
The present study investigates self-reported language choice for mental calculations among 1,454 adult multilinguals from a variety of linguistic, social and ethnic backgrounds.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
wiley   +1 more source

Implementing Argument‐Based Validity in Second Language Research on Individual Differences

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Quantitative meta‐syntheses focusing on the psychometric properties of measurement tools in second and foreign language (L2) individual differences (ID) research have drawn scholars' attention to the quality of data collection instruments (Plonsky & Derrick, 2016; Sudina, 2023).
Katalin Piniel, Ekaterina Sudina
wiley   +1 more source

Does Peer Feedback Affect L2 Writers’ L2 Learning, Composition Skills, Metacognitive Knowledge, and L2 Writing Anxiety?

English Teaching, 2013
This study examined the effects of peer feedback combined with teacher feedback on L2 writing.
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Influence of Language Learning Anxiety on L2 Speaking and Writing of Filipino Engineering Students

3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2018
Feelings of anxiety, apprehension, and nervousness remain a prevailing phenomenon in learning a second or a foreign language. This explanatory sequential research examined the influence of language learning anxiety on students’ second language (henceforth L2) writing and speaking performance.
Jonathan Veran Macayan, Edward Jay Mansarate Quinto, Julius C. Otsuka, Allyzsa Bernadette S. Cueto   +3 more
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Autism‐friendly modern foreign language teaching in a university setting: Towards a toolkit for teaching second languages to autistic students

British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper summarises the findings of a research project at a British university exploring autistic students studying modern foreign languages (MFL). The project investigates the experiences, motivations, learning strategies and preferences of autistic MFL learners in a Higher Education context to better understand how MFL classroom pedagogy ...
Caroline de Saint‐Seine, Ekaterina Chown, James Youdale   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source