Current research on the academic writing performance of EFL students has identified a number of robust factors. These factors include self-efficacy, metacognition, and a growth mindset. In the area of academic writing performance, however, there is a paucity of research combining these factors into a single study. In light of this, the purpose of…

This research evaluates the impact of Cami, an AI-powered tool, integration across SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition) stages (Cami AI-SAMR) in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writing instruction. By examining student achievement and perceptions, it explores how AI technology redefines language learning and…

Many EFL learners believe writing is a hard skill to master. Project-based learning is argued to be an effective solution to the problem. This study is aimed to look at the effect of Project-based learning (PJBL) on English writing skill for Indonesian EFL learners and their perceptions of PJBL. A mixed-method approach was implemented in this…

This paper describes an investigation of the relationship between students' writing knowledge and second language writing performance. Metacognitive and metalinguistic knowledge contribute significantly to writing performance. As a foreign language, 78 undergraduate students took a writing knowledge class and a writing proficiency test. The…

This paper aims at knowing how indirect feedback affects the writing performance of students who have different language learning strategies. The study used pre-experimental design with pretest and posttest design. Twenty-one students participated in the treatment which lasted for one semester. The treatment applied a process writing approach in…

Writing in English is often claimed as the most complex skills compared to the other three skills. Due to its complexity, feedback is seen to be an important part in writing process since it can lead to the students' better writing performance. It has been a consensus that teacher feedback is not practical to be given in a class with a big number…

English as Foreign Language (EFL) writing is challenging for students due to the lack of related lexical resources to inspire them for meaningful writing besides grammar feedback. Moreover, it is crucial to design personalized feedback based on students' original writings in helping to improve their writing abilities. Therefore, we developed Smart…

The quality of written corrective feedback can strongly and positively affect students' writing achievement levels. This study aimed to examine whether written corrective feedback could improve students' achievement levels for essay writing and investigated which one from three different feedback sources--teacher, peer, and self--was effective in…

This research was conducted to find the interactive influence between the teaching approach of writing and the type of cognitive style of students to the improvement of students writing ability. There are three teaching approaches applied in this research: product oriented, process oriented and multidimensional approach. Student cognitive style as…

This study investigated the use of genre-based language teaching model in the teaching of writing skills to improve students' low achievement. It was aimed at improving the achievement of the fifth semester of English language education study program. This study was classroom action research. The subjects were in the 4th semester in academic year…

Recently, there have been a lot of studies examining the effect of the application of flipped classroom model. However, most of the studies focused on students' achievement without much regard on cognitive styles. This study was aimed to investigate the effect of flipped classroom model on Indonesian EFL students' writing achievement across…

This study investigated whether students' writing achievements could increase using a modified roundtable technique based on the process approach and to find out what aspects of writing significantly increase. A quantitative study in the form of preexperimental design was conducted which involved 21 tenth grade students of a 1 Pekalongan-Lampung…

This research explored the combination of these three aspects, namely: teacher feedback, peer feedback, and Schoology, and looked at the effect on the students' writing performance. Schoology is an online learning management system (LMS) that is used as the platform of online feedback. The problem mainly focuses on the explored effect of online…

Self-assessment as one of authentic assessments has been currently implemented in EFL teaching pedagogy as to give more opportunity to the students to reflect on their own learning and progress. This study aims at investigating the effect of self-assessment on students' independence and writing competence. In the present study, two groups of…

The Objectives of this paper as an experimental research was to investigate the effect of Roundtable and Clustering teaching techniques and students' personal traits on students' achievement in descriptive writing. The students in grade ix of SMP Negeri 2 Pancurbatu 2016/2017 school academic year were chose as the population of this research. The…