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An Investigation of the Relationships Among Thai EFL Learners’ Writing Performance, Self-Efficacy, and Anxiety
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Vleeschauwer . An investigation of the relationships among Thai EFL learners’ writing performance, self-efficacy, and anxiety. Eur J Eng Lang Ed. 2023;3(1):23-36. doi: 10.12973/ejels.3.1.23
Vleeschauwer, J. D. (2023). An investigation of the relationships among Thai EFL learners’ writing performance, self-efficacy, and anxiety. European Journal of English Language Studies, 3(1), 23-36. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejels.3.1.23
Vleeschauwer Jindarat De. "An Investigation of the Relationships Among Thai EFL Learners’ Writing Performance, Self-Efficacy, and Anxiety," European Journal of English Language Studies 3, no. 1 (2023): 23-36. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejels.3.1.23
Vleeschauwer, J 2023, 'An investigation of the relationships among Thai EFL learners’ writing performance, self-efficacy, and anxiety', European Journal of English Language Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 23-36. Vleeschauwer, Jindarat De. "An Investigation of the Relationships Among Thai EFL Learners’ Writing Performance, Self-Efficacy, and Anxiety." European Journal of English Language Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2023, pp. 23-36, https://doi.org/10.12973/ejels.3.1.23.
Abstract
The objective of this study with first- and second-year undergraduate Thai English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students (N = 813) was to explore the relationships among English writing performance, writing self-efficacy, and writing anxiety. The students wrote an opinion-essay by hand and completed writing self-efficacy and anxiety questionnaires. Their texts were evaluated by EFL instructors using an analytic rubric. Pearson correlations indicated that there was a positive correlation between writing performance and self-efficacy and a negative correlation between writing performance and anxiety. There was also a negative correlation between self-efficacy and anxiety. Implications are recommended for further pedagogic research that take learners’ variables into an account when examining writing performance.
Keywords: EFL writing, opinion paragraph, writing anxiety, writing self-efficacy.
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