ENGLISH WRITING INSTRUCTION AND STRATEGIES AS PREDICTORS OF WRITING ANXIETY OF STUDENTS

Eutiquio M. Canada Jr., Tessie G. Miralles

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This study aimed to determine English teachers’ writing instruction and students’ writing strategies significantly predict students’ ESL writing anxiety. The working group for the present study, in which quantitative descriptive-predictive design was employed, included 271 first-year students enrolled in GE 2 subject at UM Digos College. The participants answered adopted standard questionnaires to quantify which dimension/s of English Teachers’ writing instruction and English students’ writing strategies significantly predict/s writing anxiety. The gathered data were analyzed and interpreted using the mean and standard deviation, Pearson-r, regression, and multiple linear regression. Regression analysis was used to predict the value of writing anxiety based on the value of writing instruction and strategies. Multiple linear regression was used to model the linear relationship between writing anxiety and writing instruction and strategies. The results revealed that teachers’ explicit writing instruction in teaching and students’ employment strategies in writing helped the learners lessen their writing anxiety. The findings corroborated the three domains for English writing instructions and English writing strategies: learning to write factual texts, learning to write formal and informal texts, and resourcing, significantly predict English writing anxiety. The findings obtained in this study suggest that the employment of effective instruction and strategies for students may alleviate anxiety and desirably perform various writing tasks in any particular genre.

 

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