Strategies employed by EFL doctoral candidates in dissertation writing completion

CALL, Prewriting Strategies, and EFL Writing Quantity

This study sought to explore the effect of teaching prewriting strategies through different methods of input delivery (i.e. conventional, web-based, and hybrid) on EFL learners’ writing quantity. In its quasi-experimental study, the researchersrecruited 98 available sophomores, and assigned them to three experimental groups (conventional, web-based, and hybrid groups) and a control group. The c...

Doctoral Dissertation

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Doctoral Dissertation

The construction of a low-cost and reliable array antenna system is required to facilitate the practical use of the adaptive antenna in the mobile communication field. The array antenna system can be verified by DOA (Direction of Arrival) estimation. This dissertation describes the attempt to achieve a high-precision adaptive antenna and the examination of this device, which suppresses the numb...

A Study of Metacognitive Strategies Employed by English Listeners in an EFL Setting

This paper presents a study on the metacognitive strategies employed by English listeners in an EFL setting. The results of the study reveal that the subjects used directed attention most frequently and they used monitoring least frequently. Besides, there are differences in the use of metacognitive strategies between successful and unsuccessful listeners. The differences exist in the use of di...

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