TEERAWAT ARJPRU (RAJAMANGALA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ISAN)

THE EFFECT OF SELF-REGULATED LEARNING STRATEGIES THROUGH EFL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC WRITING PERFORMANCE : ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC/SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Self-regulated learning strategies (SRLS) can be predictable as an active, advantageous process in which learners manage learning goals and then monitor, regulate, and cope with their cognition, motivation, and behavior to complete attainable outcomes. The objectives of this research were to investigate how self-regulated learning strategies (SRLS) can encourage undergraduate students’ academic writing and how self-regulated learning strategies (SRLS) were related to undergraduate students’ academic writing performance. 78 participants were selected by using convenience sampling technique, who were EFL students majoring in English for Communication (EC’s students). The instruments, self-regulated learning strategies questionnaire and academic writing test, were used to gather the data in the second semester, academic year 2023. The questionnaire was asked to determine students’ self-regulated learning writing strategies namely writing planning, memory strategies, goal-oriented monitoring, metacognitive judgment, seeking assistance, environmental structuring, emotional control, and organizing. Also, pretest and posttest academic writing test were used to assess students’ academic writing performance. The results showed that students with higher scores of academic writing performance were more frequent use of self-regulated writing strategies than those in lower scores. These findings indicated that self-regulated learning strategies were effective on undergraduate students’ academic writing performance, also the following areas of academic writing proficiency can be strengthened respectively: idea generation, organization, position clarity, sentence structure, and vocabulary. The implications of the study which may benefit writing lecturers were discussed.

Teerawat Arjpru, Ph.D. graduated in Curriculum and instruction (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) , Faculty of Education, Silpakorn University. I am an English lecturer at Rajamangala University of Technology Isan, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. My fields of interests are English language Teaching approaches and Language Assessment.