Students’ Reflections on Their Motivations in an Online Reading- Writing Course

Writing is considered a challenge to learners of any foreign language. And the way to motivate learners to keep writing and being engaged in writing tasks is also of importance to both learners and teachers. Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, almost all educational institutions have to shift into online teaching- learning systems, which seems to have impacts on learners’ engagements in taking part in class activities in general, and in writing skill in particular. This article aims at finding whether a group of sophomores of an online Reading- Writing course have any motivation in learning when they are required to work in pairs and if yes, apart from the grades, what motivates them to practice writing and complete the final writing assignment at the end of the course. By collecting students’ reflections on the factors that affect their motivation in studying writing skill, the researcher is given the opportunity to share their experiences during the online course, and from that implications might be withdrawn to help teachers have better support the teaching and learning writing skill.