Investigation teachers' and students' perceptions of impementing self-regulated learning strategies to improve efl learners' writing performance

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2014
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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Writing effectively and accurately is not an easy task for students to deal with since it requires the students to be aware of all the aspects which contribute in helping tudents produce well-organized and effective texts. The aim of this study is to investigate teachers' and students' percep In this research, adescriptive method was applied in which two questionnaires have been used. The first one was given to second year LMD students at Larbi Ben M'Hidi university. The second questionnaire was Writing is a critical and a challenging task especially for foreign language learners. given to teachers of english as a foreign language at the same university. On the basis of the data gathered from both questionnaires, the results have shown that students make use of only two strategies which are setting goal and revision strategies, but they do not use all the strategies. However, teachers' results have demonstrated that they are aware of the effectiveness of implementing self-regulated learning strategies in enhancing foreign language learners' writing performance. Therefore, our first hypothesis has been partly confirmed. While, our second hypothesis has been rejected.
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Teaching : english : writing
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