Writing Knowledge and Writing Performance of Undergraduate Students

This paper describes an investigation about the relationship between students' writing knowledge and second language performance. Metacognitive metalinguistic contribute significantly to As a foreign language, 78 undergraduate students took class proficiency test. The process has strong influence on Except for vocabulary knowledge, other aspects sub-aspects had no significant effect Vocabulary negative impact In words, while some of did not performance, others did. pedagogical implication is that all must be explicitly taught in instruction order improve quality. However, there priority aspect as core material taught, with serving complementary materials. could result moderate finding low percentage contribution. Undergraduate English Foreign Language from various institutions provinces may have varying levels skills.