Writing and Handwriting Education

The present study aimed at investigating higher education L2 learners in a Turkish context in terms of writing self-efficacy, writing anxiety, and the causes of writing anxiety. The data have been collected through the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI), developed by Cheng, (2004), and Causes of Writing…

• ÖZKAN KIRMIZI

The present study aimed at investigating higher education L2 learners in a Turkish context in terms of writing self-efficacy, writing anxiety, and the causes of writing anxiety. The data have been collected through the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI), developed by Cheng, (2004), and Causes of Writing…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the “knowledge of cognition” and “regulation of cognition,” which are processes of the metacognitive strategy for improving learners’ writing skills. The working group for the present study, in which a sequential explanatory design was employed, included 44 pu…

• ERKAN ÇER

Abstract Although fluency is an important subconstruct of language proficiency, it has not received as much attention in L2 writing research as complexity and accuracy have, in part due to the lack of methodological approaches for the analysis of large datasets of writing-process data. This article presents a method o…

• AYSEL SARICAOĞLU AYGAN

This study involved a corpus-based textual analysis of authorial presence markers in the argumentative essays of Turkish and American students. Utilising Hyland's interactional metadiscourse model (2005a) as the analysis framework, it aimed to compare the features of stance in L1 and L2 essays by Turkish learners of E…

• LEYLA MESUDE MARTİ

One of the researchers has been teaching writing and experiencing writing anxiety in her classes for three years, which has influenced her teaching writing, her students’ attitudes towards writing, and academic achievement in writing exams negatively. In order to deal with the issue, the researchers planned to use pee…

In this study, the effect of writing attitude and writing self-efficacy beliefs on the summarization achievement of the 4 th grade primary school students was examined using the structural equation modeling.The study employed the relational survey model.The study group constructed by means of simple random sampling me…

• PINAR BULUT

This study aims to explore the effects of a cooperative technique Jigsaw II (experimental group, n=42) and instructional teacher-centered teaching method (control group, n=38) on Turkish language teacher education department students’ attitudes to written expression course (a course in which writing skills were taught…

The purpose of the present study was twofold. First, the present study set out to investigate the learners‟ attitudes towards academic writing courses that they have to take as part of their curriculum, whether they experience second language writing anxiety and what reasons they report for their anxiety and failure i…

• SELMA KARA

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among students’ argumentative text writing skills, writing anxiety, and metacognitive awareness. The participants were composed of 375 8th graders in six middle schools in Sivas. Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (B Form) which was adapted in to Turkish by…

• ELİF EMİNE BALTA

Among the four language skills, writing is considered as the most challenging and difficult skill for most of the foreign language learners (Reid, 2002).Moreover, the development of students' L2 writing can be influenced by multiple factors such as L1 writing ability, L2 proficiency, and writing experiences in both la…

Please fill up the following information accurately. (Please use Times New Roman, 12 pt. The effect of creative writing activities on elementary school students’ creative writing achievement, writing attitude and motivation Writing skills have a tendency to lose their importance day by day. In addition, writing studie…