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TheEffectsofApplyingMetacognitiveKnowledgeandStrategiestoaSchoolEnglishWritingProgram
TheEffectsofApplyingMetacognitiveKnowledgeandStrategiestoaSeniorHighSchoolEnglishWritingProgram:
AnActionResearchviatheIntelligentWeb-basedInteractiveLanguageLearning(IWiLL)Platform
Introduction
ThisactionresearchisapilotstudyaimingtodesignanEnglishwritingtrainingprogramtoimprovethewritingstrategyuseofthestudentslowinEnglishwritingabilityinNationalChungHsingSeniorHighSchool(CHSH).Throughinvestigatingtheeffectsofintegratingmetacognitiveknowledgeandstrategiesintothecoursedesign,theresearchattemptstoconstituteametacognitiveknowledgebasethatstudentsneedinordertoeffectivelyachievethepurposeofwriting.
InChapterOne,thebackgroundtotheresearchisaddressed.Firstly,thepresentwritinginstructioninNationalChungHsingSeniorHighSchoolisstated.Someproblemsinthewritinginstructionwithinourschoolareidentified.Inthesecondsection,theroleofmetacognitiveknowledgeandstrategiesinEnglishwritinginstructionisexplored.Withtheattempttopromoteintegratingthefindingsofthemetacognitivetheoryintowritinginstruction,theresearchersexplicatethenotionofmetacognitionandtheimportantroleitplaysinwritinginstruction.TheIntelligentWeb-basedInteractiveLanguageLearning(IWiLL)Platformisintroducedinthefollowingsection.Astheresearchisanewattempttoincorporateaweb-basedlanguagelearningplatformandmetacognitiontheoriesintoseniorhighschoolEnglishwritinginstruction,thesignificanceaswellasthelimitationsofthisactionresearcharestatedintheconcludingpartsofthefirstchapter.
ChapterTwoconcernsmainlythetheorypart.Inthischapter,wehaveproposedthepossiblemetacognitiveskillsinvolvedinwritingingeneral,andsomepossiblemetacognitivestrategiesassociatedwiththeskills.Throughliteraturereview,theresearchersexplorethepossibilityofusinganactionresearchtoimproveEnglishwritinginstruction.TheuseofonlinewritingtoolstoassistEnglishwritinginstructionisalsoinvestigated.Thethirdandfourthsectionsinthischapterfocusonthetheoreticaldimensionofmetacognition.Inthesetwoparts,manycurrentissuesofmetacognitionarepresented.Basedontheconceptsandrecentstudies,theadoptionofmetacognitiveknowledgeandstrategiestoEnglishwritinginstructionisfosteredanddiscussed.
ChapterThreeisabouttheresearch.Inthefirstsection,themethodologyisintroducedwithsubjects,instrumentsandcoursedevelopmentdescribed.Inthesecondsection,datacollectionanddiscussionarepresented.Theinstrumentsusedinthestudyaretwoquestionnaires,anopen-endedsurvey,anintrospectiveinterviewandtwomotivationsurveys(pre-andpost-tests).Toanalyzethedatacollected,inChapterFour,thequalitativeandquantitativeanalysesofthedataarestated.
Severalprominentfindingsandresultsarederivedfromdataanalyses.Basedonthesefindingsandresults,inconclusion,someimplicationsaswellasrecommendationsarepresentedforthecurrentEnglishwritingcurriculawithinseniorhighschoolsandforteacherswhoareinterestedinapplyingthefindingsofthetheoryofmetacognitiontoEnglishwritinginstruction.
ChapterOne:
BackgroundtotheResearch
Thewritingprocesscanbeviewedasacognitiveactivity(Flower&Hayes,1981).Intheprocessofwriting,writershavetoapplyspecificknowledgetheyhaveacquired(mostlyassociatedwiththetopicandsomerhetoricconventionsaboutit),setgoalsandplans,monitorandevaluatethewaytheycomposetheirworks,andrevisebydetectinganyflawsorerrorsthatmightbeinthewrittentexts.Obviously,underlyingtheuseofknowledgeandstrategiesareanumberofcomponentprocessesthatinteract.Nowonderwritinginstructionaswellaslearningisoftenregardedasagreatchallengetobothinstructorsandlearners.
Inordertohaveabetterunderstandingofhowwritersreflectuponandmonitortheircognitiveactivities,intherecentdecade,researchershaveattemptedtoapplythefindingsofthetheoryofmetacognitiontoEnglishwritinginstruction.Throughinvestigatingtheprocessessomeskilledaswellaslessskilledwritersundergo,manywritingresearchersamongothersconcludethatenhancinglearners’self-awarenessoftheircognitiveactivitiesduringwritingdoesimprovetheirwritingperformance.
Basedonthepreviousstudies,thisresearchisafurtherattemptonintegratingmetacognitionintoanEnglishwritingprogram,thistime,
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Theresearchersandtheirstudiesthatconcludeenhancinglearners’metacognitivemodelscanassistthemtobecomebetterlanguagelearnersareHartman,2001;Kasper,1997;Sitko,1998;Devine,1993;
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