Validation of metacognitive academic writing strategies and the predictive effects on academic writing performance in a foreign language context.

ABSTRACT: 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 predictive effects of different metacognitive strategies on EFL academic writing performance. Data were collected from 664 students at a university in mainland China. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) provided evidence for the fit for two hypothesized models, i.e., an eight-factor correlated model and a one-factor second-order model. Model comparisons documented that the one-factor second-order model was a better model, through which metacognition funct

SUBMITTER: Teng MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8438561 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature