Metacognition in Student Academic Writing: A Longitudinal Study of Metacognitive Awareness and Its Relation to Task Perception, Self-Regulation, and Evaluation of Performance

Written Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 142-179

  Negretti, Raffaella ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

composition; English for academic purposes; monitoring; rhetorical awareness; self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860696413     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088312438529     Document Type: Article

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