A majority of pilot-study students suffered from a high level of writing anxiety¶
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q2 i? In the pilot study, 71% of the twenty participating students showed a high level of writing anxiety on the inventory. → Kassem 2017
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Kassem 2017¶
Mohamed Ali Mohamed Kassem. (2017). Developing Business Writing Skills and Reducing Writing Anxiety of EFL Learners through Wikis. English Language Teaching, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n3p151
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Pilot study with twenty students who completed four writing tasks (business report, e-mail, memo, business proposal) and the writing anxiety inventory; analysis revealed remarkable weaknesses in business writing skills.
"In addition, their responses to the writing anxiety inventory revealed that a large number of students (71%) suffered from a high level of writing anxiety."
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Related Claims¶
- Wiki-based instruction reduces writing anxiety of EFL business students relative to traditional instruction — related
- Writing under time limitation and negative evaluation were the most salient sources of writing anxiety for control-group students — related
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