The Causes of Writing Apprehension through Students’ Perspective

Al-Shboul, Yasser; Huwari, Ibrahim Fathi

doi:10.17507/jltr.0603.08

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“…In addition, students also generally employ preparation strategies, which are behavioral in nature to deal with writing anxiety (Kondo and Ying-Ling, 2004). These findings lend support to other researches on this matter such as Dacwang (2014), Qashoa (2014), andAl-Shboul andHuwari (2015). Another interesting finding of this research indicates different result for each level of the academic year.…”

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Writing Anxiety among Indonesian EFL College Students: Levels, Causes, and Coping Strategies

2019

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This research aimed at investigating foreign language writing anxiety experienced by Indonesian EFL learners studying at Universitas Negeri Padang. The numbers of participants involved in this survey were 132 students comprising of sophomores, junior, and senior students. This research employed three research instruments: Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) to collect data on students’ levels of writing anxiety; Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI) to gauge information about sources of students’ writing anxiety; typologies of tactics to cope with writing anxiety. The result of this research reveals that the level of students’ writing anxiety is moderate. In addition, no significant relationship between students’ writing anxiety level and their academic level is revealed suggesting moderately anxious students outnumbering those with high and low writing anxiety at any academic level. In addition, the sources of students’ writing anxiety are problems with topic choice, linguistic difficulties, and lack of writing practice. The coping strategies used by students to overcome writing anxiety are preparation, positive thinking, relaxation, peer-seeking, and resignation (most-frequent to least frequent respectively).

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Writing Anxiety among Indonesian EFL College Students: Levels, Causes, and Coping Strategies

2019

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“…They feel anxious due to the fact that they are not good at grammar, or they are anxious when their essays would be evaluated. In addition, Al-Shboul and Ibrahim (2015) report that lack of knowledge in English grammar, negative attitudes toward writing, negative writing experiences in the past and inadequate knowledge in academic writing are the causes of writing anxiety.…”

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Factors affecting male and female Indonesian EFL students’ writing anxiety

Salikin

2019

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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This study is aimed at investigating the writing anxiety levels of foreign language learners and factors affecting the foreign language writing anxiety levels on the learners based on the gender variable. It applies close-ended questionnaires as instruments to collect the data, adopted from Cheng (2004) about Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI), and Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI) questionnaire adopted from Younas (2014). The results of the study show that Indonesian English learners suffered a mediocre level of English writing anxiety, especially cognitive anxiety as preference. In relation to gender, female students tend to have significantly higher anxiety level than male in terms of writing English compositions. The study reports that both male and female learners suffered from anxiety due to lack of linguistic competence.

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“…This is on the contrary to the other students who reflected on their first academic writing task encounter as a 'shocking' and 'confusing' experience such as for #R5 and #R4. Such feelings were due to their inadequate knowledge in academic writing, which in results generating apprehension (Al-Shboul & Huwari, 2015). Further, poor understanding of grammar rules and limited vocabulary of the language has discouraged them from writing in the target language (Kirmizi, 2015).…”

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Writing Anxiety in Academic Writing Practice

Rohmah¹,

Muslim²

2021

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)

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As an essential part of EFL academic practices, writing is the most required skill in higher-education context. Subsequently, the requirement of having a high command of English writing skill emerges as one of the most important criteria for qualified EFL graduates. In reality, many students are still struggling to write academically in proper way, especially in undergraduate level since they are novices to academic writing practices. As a result, writing anxiety hinders the process of academic writing that affects the quality as well as perception of writing among students. Thus, the present study aims to investigate five EFL undergraduate students' perspectives on their academic writing practices in relation to the challenges of writing anxiety. The study was conducted through the lens of qualitative case study. Two primary data sources were collected and triangulated, i.e., semi-structured interview, and document analysis. Participants' experiences in dealing with anxiety during the learning and writing process were inquired through a semi-structured individual interview, which subsequent responses are clarified through an analysis of learners' academic essays to cross-check the whole data. The findings showed that the least anxious learner showed better writing performance then those who showed higher levels of anxiety. While the most prominent aspects that learners felt anxious about were lack of English writing practices, poor understanding of grammar rules, insufficient vocabulary, and fear of negative evaluation.

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The Causes of Writing Apprehension through Students’ Perspective

Cited by 30 publications

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Writing Anxiety among Indonesian EFL College Students: Levels, Causes, and Coping Strategies

Writing Anxiety among Indonesian EFL College Students: Levels, Causes, and Coping Strategies

Factors affecting male and female Indonesian EFL students’ writing anxiety

Writing Anxiety in Academic Writing Practice

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