Empirical studies have shown that anxiety and negative emotion can hinder language acquisition. The present study implemented a writing instructional model so as to investigate its effects on the writing anxiety levels of English Foreign Language learners. The study was conducted with 177 participants, who were administered the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI; Cheng, 2004) that...

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is becoming more widely used for performance assessment in dentistry. The department of pediatric dentistry at Baylor College of Dentistry (BCD) began incorporating the OSCE into its curriculum in 1995. This article describes the evolution of the department's use of the OSCE and its impact on teaching and the curriculum. The discussion focuse...

The undertaken study investigated the correlation between English language reading anxiety and writing anxiety. A survey research design was employed, a sample of 298 BBA students from private university in Karachi utilized. completed two anxiety-measuring questionnaires: Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) Second Writing Inventory (SLWAI). Descriptive statistics revealed that majori...

This study investigated the effects of blog-mediated instruction on English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing performance and anxiety. In addition, it aimed to probe into the EFL learners’ attitudes towards blog-mediated writing instruction. The participants of the study included forty-six Iranian EFL learners from two intact university classes, who were randomly assigned to the Con...

English language writing skills play a significant role in academic and professional lives the ESL context. Anxiety can have debilitating effects on learning listening, reading, speaking skills. The objective of current study was to explore causes anxiety Pakistani undergraduate students. data for this were collected from students teachers Karachi with asample that had both public private-secto...

high levels of mental health during studying in university, makes students able to deal effectively with numerous stressors they experience. our aim of this study was to examine and compare social anxiety among first to fourth year student nurses of ministry of health affiliated universities of medical sciences located in tehran city, iran in 2010. in this descriptive analytic study, 400 studen...