The present study adopted the structural equation modeling approach to examine Chinese university students’ metacognition, critical thinking skills, and academic writing. In particular, this research explored whether awareness in metacognition can foster and, thus, lead enhancement measure for exploring metacognitive writing strategies covered knowledge regulation understanding learners’ encomp...

Motivation is considered a complex and challenging issue in teaching, especially second language courses. Many studies have been conducted about motivational strategies teaching English language, however, the research that focuses on essay writing still rare. Therefore, this aims to describe effect of students’ proficiency their response its implementation. These include Creating Basic Motivati...