Writing under time limitation and negative evaluation were the most salient sources of writing anxiety for control-group students¶

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q2 i? Control-group students' highest WAI item means were for feeling scared when writing under time limitation (M = 4.56) and negative feelings toward writing and evaluation (M = 4.00). → Kassem 2017

Evidence¶

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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Descriptive analysis of the 30 control-group students' responses to the 12 WAI statements (Table 4); scores averaged above 3 and 4, indicating a high level of writing anxiety.

"the mean of the third statement was M = 4.56 which indicated that writing under time limit was a major source of the students' anxiety; the students' responses to the fifth statement, the mean was M= 4. 00, showed that students had negative feelings towards writing and, eventually, evaluation was considered as a source for provoking students' writing anxiety."

Discussion¶

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