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Mitiku Tasisa Dinsa – Cogent Education, 2023
This study aimed to investigate EFL students' writing strategies used in comparison to gender and year level. A descriptive-comparison design was used for this study, whereby a total of 148 English major students participated from Wolkite University and Wachamo University. To this end, the data were collected through questionnaire. The results of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Strategies, Foreign Countries
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R. Yohanes Radjaban; Eko Setyo Humanika – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2024
Problems in developing writing often comes from creative processes in developing ideas to write. Outlines are often recommended as a tool to help students organize their thoughts and structure their writing. This study aims to find out students' perceptions and the challenges the students encountered when writing an exposition text using provided…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, Writing Assignments, Expository Writing
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Fatemeh Monazzah; Mostafa Morady Moghaddam; Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
This study investigates persuasive strategies used in the writings of Iranian university students in the field of teaching English as foreign language (TEFL). The study utilized the 7 principles of persuasive strategies presented by Cialdini (The psychology of persuasion, Quill William Morrow, New York 1984; Pre-suasion: A revolutionary way to…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), College Students, Foreign Countries
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Saleem Mohd Nasim; Amr M. Mohamed; Syeda Mujeeba; Tahany S. Shaaban – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The aim of this research was to determine the levels of metacognitive awareness among college students in Saudi Arabia, with a focus on both academic majors and gender. There were 113 participants (58 females and 55 males) from the Information Technology (n = 68) and Human Resources (n = 45) majors. Using the Metacognitive Awareness of Writing…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Skills, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Escorcia, Dyanne; Ros, Christine – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2019
Introduction: Although metacognition is considered to be a key component of academic success, few studies have explored the interactions between the development of metacognitive processes beyond adolescence and variables such as sex and education. In particular, there is a gap in the literature about how these variables determine differences in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, College Students, Academic Language, Gender Differences
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Ningrum, Ary Setya Budhi; Latief, Mohammad Adnan; Sulistyo, Gunadi Harry – Dinamika Ilmu, 2016
The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of mind mapping as a strategy in generating ideas before writing on the EFL students' idea development in argumentative writing as perceived from their gender differences and learning styles. By conducting an experimental investigation at university level in Indonesia, two existing TOEFL classes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cognitive Mapping
Perin, Dolores, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2019
This handbook presents a wide range of research on adults who have low literacy skills. It looks at the cognitive, affective, and motivational factors underlying adult literacy; adult literacy in different countries; and the educational approaches being taken to help improve adults' literacy skills. It includes not only adults enrolled in adult…
Descriptors: Guides, Adult Literacy, Reading Difficulties, Literacy Education