Writing Task Complexity, Motivation, Anxiety, Planning, and L2 Writing

ISBN-13: 9783659960062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 300 str.

Muhammad Rahimi

Opis

High quality writing is an arduous and cognitively demanding undertaking, which imposes a high degree of cognitive load on the writers' processing capacity and requires high levels of motivation and anxiety control. Different types of planning reduce cognitive demands of writing and affect syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, fluency and overall writing quality. The complexity of writing tasks also influences the second language writers' written output. This book explores the roles of the task complexity, writing motivational beliefs, anxiety, and planning in second language writing by adopting psycholinguistic perspectives. The findings have theoretical, pedagogical, and methodological implications. The findings lend support to the central tent of Kellogg's (1996) theoretical writing model, Robinson's (2001) Cognition Hypothesis, and Skehan's (2014) Trade-off Hypothesis and also provide insights into pedagogical and assessment writing task design and implementation. The findings also support adopting analytical techniques (self-rating and expert opinion) to measure the degree of the cognitive demands that task design features impose on L2 learners' processing capacity.

O autorze

Rahimi, Muhammad
Dr Muhammad Rahimi earned his PhD in Education (Applied Linguistics & TESOL) at the University of Auckland. His areas of research interest include second language acquisition, pedagogy, and materials development. His publications have appeared in the leading international journals such as Language Teaching Research, Reading and Writing, and System.