The Relationship between EFL learners’ writing strategy use and their writing scores
Abstract
The aim of the study is to investigate the
relationship between EFL learners’ writing performance and their use of writing
strategies in the context of voluntary-based English Preparatory School. To do
this, Writing Strategy Inventory developed by Özbay (2008), semi-structured
interviews and students’ writing grades of their 3rd midterm exam were used.
Writing Strategy Inventory was delivered to 166 students; however, only 152
students took the midterm exam. Following the quantitative data collection
procedure, semi-structured interviews were carried out with 15 students chosen
via extreme case sampling method based on the students’ scores on the Writing
Strategy Inventory. The results show that there is a significant but a low
correlation between students’ writing strategy use and their midterm results.
However, during the interviews, students state that they can’t use the writing
strategies during the exams because of limited time for the writing part or
just because the strategies such as searching the topic on the internet and
looking up dictionaries they generally use are not appropriate for the exams.
Furthermore, the use of writing strategies does not differ according to gender;
on the other hand, students with higher self-proficiency level use more writing
strategies.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Gökhan Çetınkaya
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This is me
0000-0001-6353-0744
Türkiye
Gülay Bilgan
This is me
0000-0002-0305-0607
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 30, 2018
Submission Date
November 7, 2018
Acceptance Date
December 22, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Number: 13
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