Writing task complexity, students’ motivational beliefs, anxiety and their writing production in English as a second language

This study explored the effects of increasing the number of elements and the degree of reasoning on second language (L2) writing and also examined the relationship between writing motivational beliefs and anxiety and L2 writing in simple versus complex tasks. Sixty upper-intermediate L2 learners wer...

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Published in:	Reading & writing Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 761 - 786
Main Authors:	Rahimi, Muhammad, Zhang, Lawrence Jun
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.03.2019 Springer Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Accuracy Anxiety Beliefs Cognition Complex tasks Difficulty Level Education English (Second Language) English as a second language English as a second language learning English language Hypotheses Language and Literature Language attitudes Linguistics Literacy Motivation Neurology Persuasive Discourse Polls & surveys Psycholinguistics Questionnaires Reasoning Second Language Learning Second language writing Social Sciences Student Attitudes Student Motivation Subordination Subordination (Grammatical) Syntactic complexity Task complexity Writing Writing (Composition) Writing Apprehension Writing Assignments L2 writing production Cognition Hypothesis Anxiety Task complexity Motivational beliefs Trade-off Hypothesis
ISSN:	0922-4777, 1573-0905
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