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Leona Polyanskaya; Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs; Ming Tao; Fengfeng Chu; Mikhail Ordin – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
The writing system -- the transparency of orthography in alphabet-based systems and differences between logographic and phonetic-based systems -- can affect the efficiency of inferential word learning when words are introduced visually. It can also shape how people self-evaluate their learning success (we refer to such type of self-evaluation as…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Inferences, Vocabulary Development, Alphabets
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Zhenlei Huang; Xinjian Hu; Xiaojuan Yu; Jingjing Deng – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
The present study investigated the profiles of motivational regulation strategies for writing (MRSW) and examined the relationship between learners' use of MRSW and their English writing performance across different profiles. L2 Writing Strategies for Motivational Regulation Questionnaire (L2WSMRQ) was administered to examine the potential…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Wandong Xu; Xinhua Zhu – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
Despite the widely recognized importance of metacognition in language learning, relatively few empirical studies have investigated the role of metacognitive strategies with a cross-linguistic perspective. Drawing on the mixed-method design combining questionnaire and interview data, this study systematically investigated the effects, the transfer…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Native Language, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Teng, Mark Feng; Qin, Chenghai; Wang, Chuang – Metacognition and Learning, 2022
This empirical study serves two purposes. The first purpose is to validate a newly developed instrument, the Metacognitive Academic Writing Strategies Questionnaire (MAWSQ), which represents the multifaceted structure of metacognition in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) academic writing setting. The second purpose is to delineate the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Academic Language
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Temelman-Yogev, Lilach; Katzir, Tami; Prior, Anat – Metacognition and Learning, 2020
Success in higher education is highly dependent on students' ability to efficiently read and comprehend large amounts of text in the speaker's first/native language (L1) and also in a Foreign Language (FL). Good text comprehension requires readers to implement a variety of metacognitive processes in order to self-regulate understanding. However,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Native Language
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Teng, Lin Sophie; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Metacognition and Learning, 2018
Motivational regulation has long been recognized as an essential but insufficiently investigated aspect of self-regulated learning (SRL), especially in relation to learning English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) writing. This study intends to fill the gap by investigating the predictive effect of motivational regulation strategies on EFL students'…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests, English (Second Language)