Alves-Wold, Aline Walgermo, Bente Rigmor McTigue, Erin Uppstad, Per Henning
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Frontiers in Education
Motivation is essential for writing success. However, investigations of writing motivation in younger students often overlook the students’ voices, basing instead—insufficiently—findings solely on teachers’ and/or researchers’ observations. The present systematic literature review highlights the importance of also listening to students’ own perspec...
Abdel Latif, Muhammad M. M. Alghizzi, Talal Musaed Alshahrani, Tahani Munahi
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Frontiers in Psychology
Despite the important role motivation plays in students’ writing learning and development, not much attention has been given to experimenting particular instructional techniques for developing students’ writing motivation. One of the least researched teaching techniques in writing motivation studies is genre-based instruction. In this study, we exa...
Söderholm, Amanda
Syftet med denna studie är att bidra med kunskap om hur folksagor praktiskt kan användas som stödmodeller för elevers skrivande av sagor i årskurs 3, samt hur elevers motivation påverkas av detta. Den tidigare forskningen belyser att stödmodeller är viktiga för elevers eget skrivande av sagor, samt att elevers motivation för att skriva påverkas av ...
Myhill, Debra Cremin, Teresa Oliver, Lucy
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Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction The act of writing is widely acknowledged to be a complex and challenging activity, and in parallel, we know that student motivation to write is a predictor of writing performance. So understanding what characteristics of the writing classroom support or foster motivation remains a salient concern. Research has shown that UK teachers a...
Wang, Heqiao Troia, Gary A.
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Frontiers in Psychology
Student motivation to write is a pivotal factor influencing their writing achievement. However, individual motivation to write is not independent of the learning environment. It also is crucial for teachers to develop their own efficacy, knowledge, and ability in writing and writing instruction to help them utilize effective instructional methods t...
Bråten, Ivar Haverkamp, Ymkje E. Latini, Natalia Strømsø, Helge I.
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Frontiers in Psychology
Although writing self-efficacy has been a productive line of research for several decades, no prior writing self-efficacy measure has focused on students’ self-efficacy for integrating information across multiple sources when producing an academic text. To fill this gap in existing research on the measurement of writing motivation, we designed a me...
Li, Yan
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Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction This study investigates the influence of online collaborative writing instruction on the writing performance, writing self-efficacy, and writing motivation of Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. The research was conducted at a language school in mainland China with 58 participants divided into an experimental group (n...
Siekmann, Lea Parr, Judy Van Ophuysen, Stefanie Busse, Vera
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Frontiers in Education
Introduction Feedback can support students’ writing and has the potential to enhance writing motivation and reduce writing anxiety. However, for feedback to fulfill its potential, it has to be accepted by students and perceived as motivating. Methods In this study, we investigate changes in less proficient English as a foreign language (EFL) studen...
Han, Shujun
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Frontiers in Psychology
As an attempt to shed more light on the utility of blogs in educational contexts, the current research set out to explore the effectiveness of blog-based writing instruction on the writing skill and writing motivation of Chinese English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) students. Forty-nine Chinese EFL students from two intact classes in a language schoo...
Cui, Ying Schunn, Christian D. Gai, Xiaosong Jiang, Ying Wang, Zhe
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Frontiers in Psychology
