Perceptions of Writing Anxiety and Self-Efficacy Among Spanish Heritage Language Learners

Torres, Kelly M.; Arrastia-Chisholm, Meagan Caridad; Tackett, Samantha

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“…The Chinese language is not easy to learn, specifically in speaking and writing. Also, some Hispanic students have difficulties when studying Spanish, specifically in writing, spelling words, and using conjunctions [10].…”

Section: The Factors That Cause Students' Anxiety At Higher Educationmentioning

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Students Anxiety Experiences in Higher Education Institutions

AlKandari¹

2021

Anxiety Disorders - The New Achievements

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Section: The Factors That Cause Students' Anxiety At Higher Educationmentioning

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Students Anxiety Experiences in Higher Education Institutions

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2021

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“…As EFL students may place more emphasis on developing native-like proficiencies in comparison to their monolingual peers, they may experience higher levels of anxiety and lower levels of self-efficacy towards learning specific language skills. [22,23]. In the Philippines, English as a second language or L2 is taught as one of the required subjects until college years.…”

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Surfacing Anger and Anxiety in Graduate Research Writing: A Prose Poetic Journey

Calimag¹

2021

JMUST

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Research writing evokes feelings of anger and anxiety even among graduate students. Feelings are an inseparable part of the human lived experience and are important to learning and decision making. Research anxiety is powerful but not impossible to overcome. Various affective, cognitive, linguistic, and pedagogical mitigating strategies can be employed. By simply acknowledging its existence, we lead our students in the direction of doing just that...towards a transformational mindset to overcome research anxiety. Written qualitatively in the hermeneutic strand, this paper explores the lived experience and collective portrayals of the phenomenon of graduate research writing anxiety using prose poetry. The main forms of poetry qualitative researchers create vary from data poems or transcription poems, research poems, and autoethnographic poetry. Autoethnographic poetry is created by the author through self-reflection and writing to explore anecdotal and personal experiences and connect this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings. In this paper, the author writes from an emic perspective utilizing intertextual chaining to create an autoethnographic research prose poetry. The paper describes in rich detail, the dominant feelings about research writing anxiety and anger that surfaced from participants’ narratives of their shared experience of research writing anxiety. Prose poetry is written in paragraphs rather than verse but contains the elements of poetry, such as poetic meter, language play, and a focus on images rather than narrative, plot, and character.

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“…However, the third generation (grandchildren of first-generation immigrants) may have some exposure to the native language but are more likely to be immersed in dominant culture and, therefore, typically more fluent in the majority language. In comparison with native and first-generation speakers, the differences in language acquisition and proficiency levels for the second generation may result in producing diverse grammatical structures (Otheguy, 2013) and more general vocabulary ranges consisting of less complex words (Beaudrie & Fairclough, 2012; Torres, Arrastia-Chisholm, & Tackett, 2018). Yet, Cuban Americans may possess higher levels of native Spanish proficiency as approximately six in 10 are considered Spanish-dominant (Pew Research Center, 2015).…”

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Cuban American College Students’ Perceptions Surrounding Their Language and Cultural Identity

Torres

Tackett

Arrastia-Chisholm

2019

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education

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Four waves of Cuban immigrants have arrived to the United States from the early 1960s with the fourth wave still in progress. The changing reasons these immigrants fled Cuba have resulted in diverse characteristics for each wave of immigration. This qualitative study investigated Cuban American students' perceptions of their cultural background and Spanish proficiencies. The results of this study indicate that all participants possessed limited Spanish proficiencies and a strong desire to maintain their heritage. Implications are discussed in light of the current political climate in the United States. Resumen Cuatro olas de individuos inmigrados de Cuba han llegado a los Estados Unidos. Razones cambiantes de inmigración han resultado en características diversas de cada ola de inmigración. Este estudio cualitativo investigó las percepciones de estudiantes cubano-americanos de su origen cultural y su competencia en español. Los resultados de este estudio indican que todos los participantes poseían una competencia limitada en español y un deseo fuerte de mantener su patrimonio. Implicaciones se discuten a la luz del clima político actual en los Estados Unidos.

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Perceptions of Writing Anxiety and Self-Efficacy Among Spanish Heritage Language Learners

Cited by 10 publications

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Students Anxiety Experiences in Higher Education Institutions

Students Anxiety Experiences in Higher Education Institutions

Surfacing Anger and Anxiety in Graduate Research Writing: A Prose Poetic Journey

Cuban American College Students’ Perceptions Surrounding Their Language and Cultural Identity

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