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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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Lin Sophie Teng – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study examines the predictive effects of motivational beliefs and self-efficacy on multiple dimensions of self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. Undergraduate students (n = 389) were recruited voluntarily from four universities in mainland China. They were invited to complete a set of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Metacognition, Goal Orientation, Predictor Variables
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Tham, Jason Chew Kit – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2017
As technology continues to become more ubiquitous and touches almost every aspect of the composing process, students and teachers are faced with new means to make writing a multimodal experience. This article embraces the emerging sector of wearable technology, presenting wearable writing strategies that would reimagine composition pedagogy.…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Video Technology
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Rietdijk, Saskia; van Weijen, Daphne; Janssen, Tanja; van den Bergh, Huub; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
The aim of this study was to provide insight into the current practice of writing instruction in Dutch primary education, as a stepping stone for designing and implementing sustainable innovations that could satisfy both practitioners and policymakers. We investigated the extent to which three domain-specific approaches--communicative writing,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Educational Practices
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Hemmati, Fatemeh; Mortazavi, Mahboobeh – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
This study aimed to investigate the impact of different types of scaffolds on the writing regulatory skills of a cohort of Iranian learners of English (N = 120). The article reports a comparison of the pretest and posttest performance of learners in 4 experimental conditions--namely, the metacognitive scaffolds, conceptual scaffolds, procedural…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hung, Bui Phu; Van, Le Thi – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
Pre-writing stage has been considered very significant as it enhances writing performance in that learners can have discussions with the teacher and/or their peers. They can also outline and organize their ideas individually to prepare themselves for writing. This study investigated the effects of using pictures and interactions in the pre-writing…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Writing Strategies, Visual Aids, Photography
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Badrasawi, Kamal J. I.; Zubairi, Ainol; Idrus, Faizah – International Education Studies, 2016
Writing skill is seen as a cornerstone of university students' success in both academic and career life. This qualitative study was conducted to further explore the teachers' and students' perceptions on the relationship between writing apprehension and writing performance, contributing factors of writing apprehension, and strategies to reduce…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Correlation, Writing Apprehension, Writing Skills
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Haiyan, Miao; Rilong, Liu – English Language Teaching, 2016
This paper outlines the alignment-oriented approach in classroom EFL writing. Based on a review of the characteristics of the written language and comparison between the product-focused approach and the process-focused approach, the paper proposes a practical classroom procedure as to how to teach EFL writing. A follow-up empirical study is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Alignment (Education), Written Language
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Alkubaidi, Miriam A. – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study investigates the link between writing tasks, learners' learning style preference, and writing strategy use. It also investigates if students with various proficiency levels stem from different learning style preference and use different writing strategies. This research attempts to answer the following research questions: what are the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Writing Skills
Siu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2016
This study aims to explore the effectiveness of a paradigm to teach native Cantonese-speaking university students the hierarchical structure of expository prose to improve paragraph coherence. Most of the diagnostic argumentative essays the participants in this study wrote in the course were incoherent, failing to meet readers' expectation of…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Invention, Paragraph Composition, Writing Strategies, Writing Skills
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Konrad, Moira; Clark, Kelly A.; Test, David W. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2017
Students with disabilities trail behind their peers without disabilities while in school, as well as in post-secondary outcome areas. Given that self-determination and enhanced academic skills are associated with improved post-school outcomes, one possible solution is to identify interventions that teach self-determination and academic skills…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Teaching Methods, Disabilities, Writing Instruction
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Maarof, Nooreiny; Murat, Mazlin – International Education Studies, 2013
Writing is a great challenge whether performed in the mother tongue or in a second or foreign language (L2/FL). Studies in L2 writing show that writing is a complex cognitive activity comprising a number of processes which includes the use of various strategies. This study aimed to examine strategies used in essay writing among 50…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Wu, Greg Chung-Hsien – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2014
This pilot study aims at integrating a socio-pragmatic concept, Cooperative Principles, into an experimental writing project on the genres of comparison and contrast. It reports on a six-week study of five undergraduates voluntarily recruited in a university located in central Taiwan. In surveying their writing momentum before and after the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Literary Genres, English (Second Language)
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Zare-ee, Abbas; Fatemeh Mahdavi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
In the study reported here, we explored writing processes employed by 70 undergraduate learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) through questionnaires and think-aloud protocols. Then we looked for possible differences in the writing processes employed by high- and low-aptitude learners. We observed that learners with higher aptitude scores…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wichadee, Saovapa – Research in Education, 2014
The study investigated how transactional strategies could improve undergraduate students' reading and writing abilities. A quasi-experimental study was performed with two groups of students. Students in the control group were taught by the traditional method, while students in the experimental group were taught by transactional strategies. The…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Skill Development, Scores
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