Writing strategies used by Malaysian ESL undergraduates / Lee Lai Fong … [et al.]

Writing strategies are deemed important to enable learners to write well in academic contexts in higher education. This study examined the writing strategies of English as Second Language (ESL) undergraduates in higher education to look into the type of writing strategies they use. The five cate...

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Main Authors:	Lee, Lai Fong, Teoh, Sian Hoon, Narayanan, Geethanjali, Kaur Sidhu, Gurnam, Chan, Yuen Fook
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit UiTM (UiTM Press) 2015
Subjects:	Interlanguage Malaysia
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16039/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16039/1/AJ_LEE%20LAI%20FONG%20SMRJ%2015.pdf

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spellingShingle	Interlanguage Malaysia Lee, Lai Fong Teoh, Sian Hoon Narayanan, Geethanjali Kaur Sidhu, Gurnam Chan, Yuen Fook Writing strategies used by Malaysian ESL undergraduates / Lee Lai Fong … [et al.]
description	Writing strategies are deemed important to enable learners to write well in academic contexts in higher education. This study examined the writing strategies of English as Second Language (ESL) undergraduates in higher education to look into the type of writing strategies they use. The five categories of writing strategies focused on were rhetorical strategies, metacognitive strategies, cognitive strategies, communicative strategies, and social/affective strategies. The sample of this study comprised 40 students from the social science disciplines in a local public university. The instrument used to collect data was questionnaire. The results showed that the students used all five categories of writing strategies. However, metacognitive strategies, cognitive strategies as well as social/affective strategies were used slightly more compared to communicative strategies and rhetorical strategies. This study has implications for ESL student writers and instructors on writing strategies that can be used to facilitate academic writing
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author	Lee, Lai Fong Teoh, Sian Hoon Narayanan, Geethanjali Kaur Sidhu, Gurnam Chan, Yuen Fook
author_facet	Lee, Lai Fong Teoh, Sian Hoon Narayanan, Geethanjali Kaur Sidhu, Gurnam Chan, Yuen Fook
author_sort	Lee, Lai Fong
title	Writing strategies used by Malaysian ESL undergraduates / Lee Lai Fong … [et al.]
title_short	Writing strategies used by Malaysian ESL undergraduates / Lee Lai Fong … [et al.]
title_full	Writing strategies used by Malaysian ESL undergraduates / Lee Lai Fong … [et al.]
title_fullStr	Writing strategies used by Malaysian ESL undergraduates / Lee Lai Fong … [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed	Writing strategies used by Malaysian ESL undergraduates / Lee Lai Fong … [et al.]
title_sort	writing strategies used by malaysian esl undergraduates / lee lai fong … [et al.]
publisher	Penerbit UiTM (UiTM Press)
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Writing strategies used by Malaysian ESL undergraduates / Lee Lai Fong … [et al.]

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