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Writing Motivation Of Students With Specific Language Impairments, Kyle Lee Brouwer
Writing Motivation Of Students With Specific Language Impairments, Kyle Lee Brouwer
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This study was designed to compare the writing motivation of students with specific language impairments with their non-disabled peers. Due to the cognitive and linguistic demands of the writing process, students with language impairments face unique difficulties during the writing process. It was hypothesized that students with specific language impairments will be more likely to report lower levels of perceived writing competence and be less autonomously motivated to write. Students in grades 3-5 in 11 schools (33 with specific language impairments, 242 non-disabled peers) completed self-report measures, designed from a Self-Determination Theory perspective, which measured the degree that students are …