TY - JOUR N2 - The article aims to discuss foreign language writing anxiety and present the results of the study which was to investigate whether writing apprehension can be observed among advanced adult learners of English. Analysing anxiety from a three dimensional perspective proposed by Lang (1971) the study revealed that advanced adult students most intensely experience cognitive anxiety whose most prevailing symptoms are panic, worry and elements of test anxiety. Somatic anxiety has also been observed in this group of participants with heart pounding, freezing up, mind going blank and jumbled thoughts as the most common symptoms. Finally, the research revealed that avoidance behaviour appears infrequently among advanced writers. The research results have been used as the basis for formulating pedagogical implications on how to reduce students’ writing apprehension. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/89125/mainfile.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/89125 PY - 2012 EP - 239 A1 - Marzec-Stawiarska, Małgorzata PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 33 DA - 2012 T1 - Foreign language writing anxiety among adult advanced learners of English SP - 221 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/89125 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -