Metacognitive Strategies Used by Students of Andalas University in Writing Paragraph

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10.2991/assehr.k.200819.047How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Metacognitive Strategies, Writing, Paragraph

Abstract

Writing task is still a difficult and challenging task for students. In order to face this condition, students must have strategies. One of strategies is metacognitive strategies. These strategies can help students to do the writing task. There are four strategies in metacognitive strategies, namely; planning, monitoring, problem-solving, and evaluating. The purpose of this research was to explore what metacognitive strategies used by the students of Andalas University. The method of the research was a descriptive qualitative research. The participants were the students of industrial Engineering. It was class B that consisted of 45 students. The instruments used to collect the data were observation sheet, questionnaire, and interview. This research was done in two meetings. In each meeting, the researcher observed the students during writing activities. At the end of class, the researcher distributed the questionnaire sheet that answered by the students and interviewed them then. Based on the data analysed, it was found that the most students used metacognitive strategies in writing.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jufrizal
AU  - Nelmira Dewita
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/19
TI  - Metacognitive Strategies Used by Students of Andalas University in Writing Paragraph
BT  - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA-2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 237
EP  - 240
SN  - 2352-5398
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