The Effects of Writing Anxiety and Motivation on EFL College Students’ Self-Evaluative Judgments of Corrective Feedback

Abstract

Feedback is regarded as a way to foster students’ motivation and to ensure linguistic accuracy. However, mixed findings are reported in the research on written corrective feedback because of its multifaceted nature and its correlations with learners’ individual differences. It is necessary, therefore, to conduct further research on corrective feedback from the student’s perspective and to examine how individual differences in terms of factors such as writing anxiety and motivation predict learners’ self-evaluative judgments of both teacher-corrected and peer-corrected feedback. For this study, 158 Taiwanese college sophomores participated in a survey that comprised three questionnaires. Results demonstrated that intrinsic motivation and different types of writing anxiety predicted English as foreign language learners’ evaluative judgments of teacher and peer feedback. The findings have implications for English-writing instruction.

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writing anxiety motivation teacher feedback peer feedback L2 writing

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