Collaborative learning and Students Apprehension toward Writing: The Impact of Collaborative Learning on L1 and L2 College Students' Apprehension about and Attitudes toward Writing - Couverture souple

Al-Ahmad, Sayyah

 
9783847314219: Collaborative learning and Students Apprehension toward Writing: The Impact of Collaborative Learning on L1 and L2 College Students' Apprehension about and Attitudes toward Writing
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ISBN 10 : 3847314211 ISBN 13 : 9783847314219
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Writing apprehension has always been considered a serious obstacle for L1 and L2 teachers and students alike and, in most cases, it could impede students’ language learning. Accordingly, a considerable number of students develop a great concern about and negative attitudes toward writing, and avoid situations where writing is required. The treatment procedure employed in this study, which was assumed to reduce students’ writing apprehension, was a collaborative approach to learning. In this approach student writers work collaboratively in groups to explore, analyze, and negotiate meaning and solve problems in a non-threatening atmosphere. Therefore, this study was intended to investigate the impact of collaborative learning on L1 and L2 college students’ apprehension about and attitudes toward writing. Three hundred forty nine L1 students and 12 L1 writing teachers, and 77 L2 students and 3 L2 writing teachers participated in this study. Both L1 and L2 Students responded to the Daly-Miller Writing Apprehension Test twice, once as a pretest and another time as a posttest.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Writing apprehension has always been considered a serious obstacle for L1 and L2 teachers and students alike and, in most cases, it could impede students’ language learning. Accordingly, a considerable number of students develop a great concern about and negative attitudes toward writing, and avoid situations where writing is required. The treatment procedure employed in this study, which was assumed to reduce students’ writing apprehension, was a collaborative approach to learning. In this approach student writers work collaboratively in groups to explore, analyze, and negotiate meaning and solve problems in a non-threatening atmosphere. Therefore, this study was intended to investigate the impact of collaborative learning on L1 and L2 college students’ apprehension about and attitudes toward writing. Three hundred forty nine L1 students and 12 L1 writing teachers, and 77 L2 students and 3 L2 writing teachers participated in this study. Both L1 and L2 Students responded to the Daly-Miller Writing Apprehension Test twice, once as a pretest and another time as a posttest.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Sayyah Al-Ahmad is an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics. He got his PhD from Indiana University of Pennsylvania/USA in 2003.He is a permenant faculty member teaching English Linguistics and Composition at Language Center and English Department at Yarmouk University/ Jordan. Currently, he is teaching at Um Al-Qura University in KSA.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3847314211
ISBN 13 
9783847314219
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
200
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