Chapter 5: Writing on an Interesting Topic: Does Writing Foster Interest?

Classroom discussion and individual problem-solving in the teaching of history: Do different instructional approaches affect interest in different ways?

“…According to our hypotheses, in the discussion condition situational interest was expected to foster both individual interest and self-perception of competence, and peer relationships were expected to have a prominent role in stimulating situational interest (Wigfield et al, 2004). In the individual problem-solving condition, we expected situational interest and self-perception of competence in history to determine individual interest in history in different ways (Boscolo, Del Favero, & Borghetto, 2007;Hidi et al, 2002). The factor participation of the situational interest questionnaire was kept separate from the others, because peer relationships were expected to have a different impact on the other motivational variables according to the teaching approach.…”

Students' intrinsic motivation in EFL academic writing: Topic-based interest in focus

“…The result also aligns with previous research reporting that motivation in general, and intrinsic motivation in particular, is a dominant factor that influences success in learning EFL writing [ 1 , 13 ]. Topic attractiveness is a basic motivational source of writing that affects the quality of the written text [ 15 ]. The current result aligns with Ref.…”

“…Ref. [ 15 ] state that topic attractiveness can be viewed as a basic motivational source of writing, an independent variable affecting the quality of the written text. Interest has tended to be viewed as rather static; students are thought to be either interested or uninterested in a particular topic they write about.…”

“…Text-based interest thus can be seen as the first step toward interest in the topic. Topic interest is a reader’s cognitive and affective orientation to a topic, which leads them to perform autonomous operations, such as reflecting on, discussing, reading, and researching it [ 15 ]. Text-based interest originates in the salience of a text’s topics or themes or how the text is written.…”

Enfoques en la investigación de la regulación de escritura académica: Estado de la cuestión

“…No obstante, de acuerdo con la reciente investigación sobre la motivación en la escritura (ver, por ejemplo, Hidi y Boscolo, 2007 para un estado de la cuestión), otros factores no contemplados en estos modelos, como por ejemplo el interés por el tema y la tarea, también parecen influir en la regulación de la escritura (Boscolo, Favero y Borghetto, 2007). Así, poco se sabe acerca del impacto de estos modelos en el aprendizaje y uso de estrategias de regulación de la motivación durante el proceso de escritura, que son distintas de las habituales estrategias de regulación del proceso cognitivo de escritura (Wolters, 2003, p. 192).…”