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Writing Apprehension in Chinese as a First Language
- Source: ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 115, Issue 1, Jan 1997, p. 27 - 37
Abstract
First year high school students in Taiwan filled out a questionniare probing their writing anxiety and leisure reading and writing habits in Chinese. A strong relationship was found between reported writing apprehension and frequency of leisure writing, confirming results reported by Daly and associates with North American English-speaking subjects. In addition, there was evidence of a relationship between writing apprehension and frequency of reading, suggesting that those who read more have lower writing apprehension.
© 1997 John Benjamins Publishing Company