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Developing Motivation to Write

Educational Psychologist, 2000
Two decades of cognitive research have shown writing to be a highly fluid process of problem solving requiring constant monitoring of progress toward task goals. Becoming an able writer brings great intellectual and social rewards, but the extended nature and difficulty of this process create unique motivational challenges.
Roger Bruning, Christy Horn
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Exploring the interplay between EFL learners’ L2 writing boredom, writing motivation, and boredom coping strategies

Language Teaching Research
This study set out to scrutinize the interplay between 338 (218 male and 120 female) English as a second or foreign language learners’ second language writing boredom (L2WB) and boredom coping strategies, along with the mediating role of second language ...
Mehdi Solhi   +3 more
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Writing Motivation of College Students in Basic Writing and First-Year Composition Classes: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Scales on Goals, Self-Efficacy, Beliefs, and Affect

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2021
The purpose of the study was to validate a writing motivation questionnaire that consists of four scales for first-year college writers—students with low writing skills in basic writing classes and students in typical first-year composition (FYC)—to ...
Z. Philippakos   +2 more
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The Implicit Achievement Motive in the Writing Style

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
Linguistic theories and research indicate that unconscious processes should influence the content, but moreover also the way how things are expressed. As the first is well researched and the second is almost neglected, I want to assess how the writing style of a person is related to the implicit achievement motive and its two components hope of success
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The impact of L2 writing instructional approaches on student writing motivation and engagement

Language Teaching Research, 2020
While previous research has investigated the effectiveness of various second language (L2) writing instructional approaches upon students’ writing performance, whether and how the instructional approaches relate to students’ writing motivation and ...
Shulin Yu, Lianjiang Jiang, Nan Zhou
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Motivating Writing Education

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2006
Abstract Writing can turn into a real passion. However, teaching and learning writing skills is hardly ever the most motivating component of a language curriculum. Writing currricula (i) are often purely skill oriented -at the expense of more cognitive and metacognitive aspects-, (ii) involving oneto- one communication using ...
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Exploring Hong Kong primary students’ English writing motivation: relationships between writing self-efficacy and task value

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
As an intimidating school subject for students globally, writing requires a high level of motivation, especially for second language (L2) learners. Despite abundant research on motivation in both first language (L1) writing and L2 learning, L2 writing ...
B. Shen, Barry Bai, Moonyoung Park
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Writing and Motivation

2006
Bringing together contributions from international research on writing and motivation this volume addresses the implications of writing instruction based on the 2 main approaches to writing research: cognitive and socio-cultural. It provides systematic analysis of the various models, perspectives, and methods of motivation and writing.
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The bright and dark side of writing motivation: Effects of explicit instruction and peer assistance

Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Fien De Smedt   +2 more
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The Motivation to Write

2009
Writing can be a struggle, or it can be fun. Most likely it is both. The attitude with which we approach the writing project can determine its success. Lack of motivation and writer’s block can prevent us from beginning, continuing, completing, and enjoying writing projects. This chapter provides strategies for overcoming these obstacles to our writing.
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