The present study adopted a mixed-methods research design and explored the role of a set of cognitive (i.e., aptitude and working memory) and motivational (i.e., self-regulatory capacity and self-efficacy beliefs) individual difference variables in the writing quality and composing behavior of 78 Iranian undergraduate EFL learners. The necessary data were collected through a series of instrumen...

Title of Document: CONTRIBUTIONS OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, MOTIVATION, AND STRATEGIES TO KOREAN COLLEGE STUDENTS’ L2 WRITING DEVELOPMENT Soo Eun Chae Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Patricia A. Alexander, Department of Human Development The current study examined Korean college students’ L2 writing development and performance, motivation, and strategies while taking ESL writing clas...

The concept about the “therapeutic writing” has its beginning from an autobiographic work, realized in 2003, whose title is Letters to a real interlocutor. My sense. That writing turned out be therapeutic because it helped writer develop her sharpest sufferings, overcome traumas and win old guilt. writing, meant as inner reveal, essential able understand also physical signals that our body ofte...

Travel is a momentum to look inside that influences the travelers' existence, along with meeting and interacting others. The self as traveler experiences internal dynamics reflected in travel writings. This paper analyzes five French writings reveal self-construction of travelers who explored East 19th century. analysis results show travelers’ divided into Enlightenment or Romantic subjects tru...