Designed as action research, this qualitative study aims to develop the informational text writing skills of gifted students through strategies “all about” books and frames for biographies. The group research consists 21 4th grade studying in field general mental ability a Science Art Center spring semester 2020-2021 academic year. An eight-week plan was prepared support development these stude...

As an important and a challenging source-based writing task, synthesizing offers rich opportunities to explore the connections between reading and writing. In this article, we report findings from a qualitative study of two Chinese students’ learning experiences with academic synthesis writing in a university ESL composition course. Specifically, we discuss how the two students’ understanding o...

Investigating the causal factors, effects, and strategies to overcome writing anxiety is aim of this research. A fifth semester student English Education Study Program, Teacher Training Faculty Universitas Tanjungpura with high learning motivation was chosen as participant case study design employed in research by using semi-structured interview document analysis method data collection. The res...

This paper aims to apply metacognitive theory in EFL writing instruction to provide an alternative solution to the difficulties and problems in EFL writing classes in China. Metacognition is knowledge about cognition and regulation of cognition. This paper advocates both teaching with metacognition and teaching for metacognition. To teach with metacognition, an EFL writing instructor should ref...