Writing a dissertation is a critical aspect of the learning experience for most university students in all disciplines. It is often accompanied by anxiety and uncertainty, which supervisors often struggle to understand and address. A community-driven approach to support dissertation writing based on semantic social scaffolding is presented here. The paper describes how a semantic wiki was tailo...

This qualitative study explored the feelings of students about using the library for research. Personal writing, collected in beginning composition courses over a two-year period, was analyzed for recurrent themes. It was found that 75 to 85 percent of the students in these courses described their initial response to library research in terms of fear. Three concepts emerged from these descripti...

The current paper aims to investigate foreign language (L2) writing anxiety levels of Turkish EFL students with regard their foreign
 performance, gender, age and level. participants were 120 preparatory class from A1, A2, and
 B1 at a state university in Turkey. data collected through an inventory, namely Second Language Writing Anxiety
 Inventory by Cheng (2004a), midterm final...

The study aimed to determine the relationship between writing anxiety and self-efficacy of students learning Turkish as a foreign language. sample consisted 247 international at B1 B2 levels Education Application Research Center foundation university. Writing Anxiety Scale for Learners Foreign Language, developed by Şen Boylu (2017), was used students’ anxiety. There were 13 items two...