This paper looks at young ESL writers in Hong Kong and describes an action research project which involved the implementation of a new ESL writing programme designed to enhance students’ motivation and engagement by taking more account of the young learners’ own socio-cultural context. The study examined both the students’ and teacher–researcher’s perspectives on the new programme and looked at...

the effect of motivational self-regulatory strategies on l2 learners’ achievement has scarcely been examined within the context of our country, iran. this study is concerned with examining the relationship between motivational self-regulatory strategies and their l2 reading and l2 writing achievement. it also explores the relationship of motivational self-regulatory strategies and use of langua...

having in mind the high level of challenge in writing as a foreign language, this research provided iranian efl learners with audiovisual feedbacks as an alternative of common written feedback and focused on its’ meaningfulness in order to provide an incentive medium for the participants and increase their moti-vation. one hundred young adult female learners in addition to six english language ...

This case study investigated the attitudes and perceptions of primary school students and their teacher toward collaborative writing using a wiki technology in a Chinese writing class in China. An online collaborative writing environment named “Joyous Writing Club” (JWC) was designed and developed using a wiki. Participants included 59 primary four students and their Chinese language teacher. T...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the Canonical analysis of the relationship between personality traits and attitude with motivation and EFL learners’ written production task. This research in terms of data collection procedure is a correlation type. The statistical population consisted of the students who were selected by random cluster sampling method. Data were analyzed using stan...