Naslov
Willingness to communicate, writing anxiety and self-efficacy: how do they relate to students' online writing activities perception?

Autori
Kovačić, Andreja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
UZRT 2012: empirical studies in English applied linguistics

Urednik/ci
Mihaljević Djigunović, Jelena ; Medved Krajnović, Marta

Izdavač
FF Press

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2013

Raspon stranica
95-112

ISBN
978-953-175-458-3

Ključne riječi
writing anxiety, individual differences, online writing activities

Sažetak
In investigating the factors that influence students’ engagement in online speaking and writing activities an appropriate combination of measures needs to be selected. This chapter explores the relationships among several self-perceived individual differences – willingness to communicate in the classroom, foreign language writing anxiety and self-efficacy – in the performance of online writing activities in English as a foreign language (EFL) instruction. The author’s aim is to establish if the examined variables constitute the affective background of the learner perception of writing activities conducted by means of an online collaborative writing tool. Insights into learner perception are relevant since they may account for their actual engagement in the tasks as well as the nature of that engagement. For the purpose of this study the examined variables, though well-established in the applied linguistics literature, will be contextualized, i.e. addressed in the hybrid foreign language (HFL) learning environment. The EFL research into the selected learner variables provides the conceptual basis for the author’s empirical analysis of the willingness to communicate in the classroom, foreign language writing anxiety and self-efficacy as multidimensional constructs as well as of their possible respective connections with the perception of online writing activities implemented by means of the wiki tool. The findings discussed in the second part of this chapter are intended to shed light on some factors to be considered when pedagogically sound implementation of Web 2.0 tools is concerned in HFL instruction.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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