Postgraduate students’ beliefs about and confidence for academic writing in the field of applied linguistics

Motivational theories highlight the importance of students’ confidence, where lower confidence can be limiting, and also students’ beliefs about academic writing, which may reflect goals as well as practices to achieve them. Nevertheless, relatively few studies have considered these areas across students with English as a first language (L1 students) and students with first languages other than English (L2 students). In order to gain new...