Strategies for Coping with Writing Anxiety: An Experimental Study

Abstract

Anxiety is associated with feelings of uneasiness, frustration, self-doubt, apprehension, or worry (Scovels, 1978). According to Field (2004), general anxiety is one of several affective factors which. can influence attention and hence lead to deterioration in language performance. Studies have proved that students experience considerable amount of anxiety when it comes to activities that require productive skills. Writing anxiety always affects writing performance. The investigator evolved a few strategies like Motivation, Diary Writing, Feedback, Reading, Vocabulary Enhancement, Email writing and Blogging to study their impact on students’ writing anxiety levels. It was planned to administer a questionnaire to a set of students before and after a particular period of time to check and compare their levels of anxiety at both phases.