Length Approach on English Majors’ Writing Anxiety and Writing Performance under Pigai.org

Abstract

With the help of Pigai.org, based on “Length Approach”, this present study is to explore the changes of writing anxiety and writing performance between experimental class and control class before and after the experiment, so as to confirm the influence of “Length Approach” on the first-year English majors in writing teaching. After nearly three months’ writing training experiment, the following conclusions are drawn: (1) the “Length Approach” can effectively relieve the writing anxiety of first-year English majors, and it is mainly realized by reducing the cognitive anxiety in writing anxiety; (2) the “Length Approach” can also improve the writing performance of first-year English majors to a certain extent. (3) Pigai.org is an appropriate choice and effective platform for English majors to practice English writing and receive feedback. This study provides some enlightenment for the application of “Length Approach” and Pigai.org in English major’s writing teaching.