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Do Medical Students Experience Writing Anxiety While Learning English as a Foreign Language?
AIM: The study examines English Foreign Language (EFL) writing anxiety among medical students in terms of the levels, types, and causes of writing anxiety. METHODS: This study is a cross-sectional study consisting of 684 first-year medical students from Jordanian universities. The participants respo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7610028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33162759 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S276448 |
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description | AIM: The study examines English Foreign Language (EFL) writing anxiety among medical students in terms of the levels, types, and causes of writing anxiety. METHODS: This study is a cross-sectional study consisting of 684 first-year medical students from Jordanian universities. The participants responded to an online survey consists of Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) and Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI), 15 of whom were invited for semi-structured interviews. RESULTS: The results reveal that the participants experience a high level of writing anxiety, with cognitive anxiety as its dominant type. As for the main causes of writing anxiety, they are linguistic difficulties, insufficient writing practice, low self-confidence in writing, and fear of writing tests. The findings from qualitative data obtained from semi-structured interviews reinforce the results of quantitative data. CONCLUSION: The study sheds light on the problems of English Foreign Language writing anxiety and raises awareness of language teachers and syllabus designers. |
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spelling | pubmed-76100282020-11-05 Do Medical Students Experience Writing Anxiety While Learning English as a Foreign Language? Rabadi, Reem I Rabadi, Alexander D Psychol Res Behav Manag Original Research AIM: The study examines English Foreign Language (EFL) writing anxiety among medical students in terms of the levels, types, and causes of writing anxiety. METHODS: This study is a cross-sectional study consisting of 684 first-year medical students from Jordanian universities. The participants responded to an online survey consists of Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) and Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI), 15 of whom were invited for semi-structured interviews. RESULTS: The results reveal that the participants experience a high level of writing anxiety, with cognitive anxiety as its dominant type. As for the main causes of writing anxiety, they are linguistic difficulties, insufficient writing practice, low self-confidence in writing, and fear of writing tests. The findings from qualitative data obtained from semi-structured interviews reinforce the results of quantitative data. CONCLUSION: The study sheds light on the problems of English Foreign Language writing anxiety and raises awareness of language teachers and syllabus designers. Dove 2020-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7610028/ /pubmed/33162759 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S276448 Text en © 2020 Rabadi and Rabadi. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Rabadi, Reem I Rabadi, Alexander D Do Medical Students Experience Writing Anxiety While Learning English as a Foreign Language? |
title | Do Medical Students Experience Writing Anxiety While Learning English as a Foreign Language? |
title_full | Do Medical Students Experience Writing Anxiety While Learning English as a Foreign Language? |
title_fullStr | Do Medical Students Experience Writing Anxiety While Learning English as a Foreign Language? |
title_full_unstemmed | Do Medical Students Experience Writing Anxiety While Learning English as a Foreign Language? |
title_short | Do Medical Students Experience Writing Anxiety While Learning English as a Foreign Language? |
title_sort | do medical students experience writing anxiety while learning english as a foreign language? |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7610028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33162759 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S276448 |
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