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ESL WRITING ANXIETY AND ITS EFFECTS ON WRITING PERFORMANCE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN AN ACADEMICALLY DISADVANTAGED CONTEXT OF PAKISTAN A CASE STUDY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).23      10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).23      Published : Mar 2023

ESL Writing Anxiety and its Effects on Writing Performance of College Students in an Academically Disadvantaged Context of Pakistan: A Case Study

Abstract

    This study investigated the levels of ESL writing anxiety and its effects on the writing performance of 161 (85 male and 76 female) college students of Balochistan with a non-probability sampling. For data collection, the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) of Cheng (2004) was used in addition to an essay writing task completed by the participants. The SLWAI results indicated that overall ESLWA was significantly high (M= 2.99, SD = .67). Somatic anxiety (SA) was the most prevailing one (M=3.39, SD = .90). The second most significant type was cognitive anxiety (CA) (M=3.11, SD = .82), whereas, the avoidance behaviour (AB) was the third in level (M= 2.45, SD =.87). The statistical analysis of writing tasks revealed an adverse association between the WA and WP
    of the college students of Balochistan.

    ESL Writing Anxiety, Cognitive Anxiety, Somatic Anxiety, Avoidance behaviour, Writing Performance

    (1) Abdul Wahid
    M.Phil. Scholar, Department of English Literature
    (2) Niaz Hussain Soomro
    Associate Professor, Department of English, Government College University Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan.
    (3) Zahid Hussain Pathan
    Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics & Philology, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
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    TURABIAN : Wahid, Abdul, Niaz Hussain Soomro, and Zahid Hussain Pathan. "ESL Writing Anxiety and its Effects on Writing Performance of College Students in an Academically Disadvantaged Context of Pakistan: A Case Study." Global Language Review VIII, no. I (2023): 241-257. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).23