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Direct linkYuan, Rui; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
Despite a surge of research interest in teacher identity in both TESOL and general education, there is a lack of attention to the role of metacognition in language teachers' identity (re)construction. Informed by the integrated framework of metacognitions comprising metacognitive knowledge, strategies, and experiences, this article reports on four…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Teng, Lin Sophie; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Metacognition and Learning, 2018
Motivational regulation has long been recognized as an essential but insufficiently investigated aspect of self-regulated learning (SRL), especially in relation to learning English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) writing. This study intends to fill the gap by investigating the predictive effect of motivational regulation strategies on EFL students'…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests, English (Second Language)
Teng, Lin Sophie; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Modern Language Journal, 2016
This study aimed to validate a newly-developed instrument, The Writing Strategies for Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) Questionnaire, with respect to its multifaceted structure of SRL strategies in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. A total of 790 undergraduate students from 6 universities in Northeast China volunteered to be participants.…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Metacognition, Writing Strategies, English (Second Language)
Zhang, Limei; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
This article investigates the relationships between test takers' strategy use and test performance on an EFL reading test. For this study 209 Chinese college students were invited to participate in a reading comprehension test and answer a 30-item strategy use questionnaire. Results showed that two factors underlay test takers' reading test…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Structural Equation Models, Ability
Zhang, Lawrence Jun – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
Metacognition, conceptualized as a set of dynamic systems, has been recognized as an important area of academic and pedagogical inquiry in applied linguistics from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Nonetheless, literature on students' metacognition about EFL reading is still cursory, and that is particularly true as regards Chinese EFL…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Applied Linguistics, Learning Strategies, Global Approach
Download full textZhang, Lawrence Jun; Wu, Aijiao – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2009
This paper reports findings from a study that assesses metacognitive awareness and reading-strategy use of Chinese senior high school students who are learning English as a foreign language (EFL). A total of 270 students responded to a 28-item survey of reading strategies (SORS). The strategies were classified into 3 categories: global,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Reading Strategies, Problem Solving, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedZhang, Lawrence Jun – Language Awareness, 2001
Reports on a study of 10 Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) readers' metacognitive knowledge of strategies in learning to read EFL in the People's Republic of China, a typical acquisition-poor environment. EFL readers' metacognitive knowledge of strategies was analyzed and interpreted from a broad metacognitive perspective. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Reading Skills
