title: Self-efficacy, foreign language anxiety as predictors of academic performance among professional program students in a general English proficiency writing test.
abstract: Questionnaires were administered to 120 students. Cluster analysis was used to examine whether specific groups could be described by a writing self-efficacy scale, English writing anxiety scale, and a written General English Proficiency Test. Three clusters were observed. Demographic variables were compared for each cluster, including age, sex, program of study, years of English instruction, native language, and number of English speaking acquaintances. Efforts to reduce writing anxiety and promote writing self-efficacy could enhance writing scores of participants.
authors.affiliation: National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Huey-Ju
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires