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Camping, April; Graham, Steve; Ng, Clarence; Aitken, Angelique; Wilson, John M.; Wdowin, Jeanne – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The purpose of this study was to compare the motivational incentives for writing of middle school emergent bilingual students with their peers whose first language was English. The study included 285 emergent bilingual students (146 girls, 139 boys) who were matched with 285 native English speakers (NE) on race, gender, and grade. The emergent…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Incentives, Writing Attitudes, Middle School Students
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Graham, Steve; Daley, Samantha G.; Aitken, Angelique A.; Harris, Karen R.; Robinson, Kristin H. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Individual differences in motivational beliefs, such as writing efficacy and attitudes toward writing in different contexts (academic, recreational, print or digital), are hypothesised to account for variability in writing performance. This study tested this proposition with 185 middle school students (58% were male), examining if writing…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Writing Skills, Self Efficacy, Writing Attitudes
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Marashi, Hamid; Tahan-Shizari, Parissa – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2015
This study was an attempt to investigate the comparative impact of convergent and divergent condition tasks on EFL learners' writing and motivation. Sixty female intermediate EFL learners were selected from among a total number of 90 through their performance on a sample piloted PET and further homogenized in terms of their writing and motivation.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Statistical Analysis, Writing Attitudes, Student Motivation