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Sasaki, Miyuki; Hirose, Keiko – Language Learning, 1996
Investigates factors influencing Japanese university students' expository writing in English. Quantitative analysis revealed that students' second-language (L2) proficiency, first-language writing ability, and metaknowledge were significant in explaining L2 writing ability variance. An explanatory model for writing ability in English as a Foreign…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Expository Writing, Foreign Countries