Assessing self-regulated writing strategies, self-efficacy, task complexity, and performance in English academic writing

IF 5.4 3区材料科学 Q2 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

ACS Applied Energy Materials Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.asw.2023.100728

Mark Feng Teng , Ying Zhan

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Abstract

The present study focused on the assessment of how task complexity and learner variables (English proficiency level, self-regulated writing strategies, and writing self-efficacy belief) influence English academic writing for students in a foreign language context. The participants were 270 students from a medium-sized university in China. All participants completed measures on self-regulated writing strategies, self-efﬁcacy, and an academic writing test. Guided research questions aimed to explore the extent to which task complexity and English proficiency level influenced writing performance along with how learners’ self-efficacy and self-regulated writing strategies mediated the role of task complexity in academic writing performance. Structural equation modelling results showed that task complexity and English proficiency level influenced learners’ writing performance. Self-efficacy beliefs and the use of self-regulated writing strategies mediated the role of task complexity on academic writing performance. Implications related to the assessment of task complexity, self-regulated writing strategies, self-efﬁcacy, and academic writing were discussed.

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英语学术写作中自我调节写作策略、自我效能感、任务复杂性和表现的评估

本研究的重点是评估任务复杂性和学习者变量（英语水平、自主写作策略和写作自我效能信念）如何影响学生在外语环境中的英语学术写作。参与者是来自中国一所中等规模大学的270名学生。所有参与者都完成了自我调节写作策略、自我效能和学术写作测试的测量。引导性研究问题旨在探讨任务复杂性和英语水平对写作成绩的影响程度，以及学习者的自我效能感和自律写作策略如何介导任务复杂性在学术写作成绩中的作用。结构方程建模结果表明，任务复杂性和英语水平影响学习者的写作成绩。自我效能信念和自我调节写作策略的使用介导了任务复杂性对学术写作成绩的作用。讨论了与任务复杂性评估、自我调节写作策略、自我效能和学术写作相关的影响。

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ACS Applied Energy Materials Materials Science-Materials Chemistry

CiteScore

10.30

自引率

6.20%

发文量

1368

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Energy Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important energy applications.