Spanish undergraduates of English Studies are required to submit their essays in academic English, a genre which most of them are not acquainted with. This paper aims to explore the extralinguistic side of second language (L2) academic writing, more specifically, the combination of metalinguistic items (e.g. transition and frame markers, among others) with students' writing strategies when comp...

L2 learners’ individual differences are crucial factors that deserve attention in L2 education. Focusing on 2 main areas of individual differences (i.e., field (in)dependence and multiple intelligences), this study explored their relationships with L2 reading performance. Participants were 64 TEFL undergraduates and postgraduates. To assess the participats’ degree of field (in)dependence and mu...

The increasing dominance of English has elevated the need to develop an ability to effectively communicate in writing, and this has put a strain on second language education programs worldwide. Faced with timeconsuming and copious commenting on student drafts and inspired by the promise of computerized writing assessment, many "educational technology enthusiasts are looking to A WE [automated w...

Effective writing skills are essential for second language (L2) learners to achieve. To assist these learners, teachers provide methods improve their in writing, and one of the is written corrective feedback. Despite applying feedback, L2 still face challenges developing skills, especially skill produce linguistically accurate writing. Written feedback a form that commonly employed pedagogicall...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a topic of increasing interest in the field language and instruction. In this study, we set out to investigate relationship between students' use SRL strategies second (L2) writing, their L2 writing engagement, procrastination. Data were collected from college students mainland China ( N = 816) related strategy use, for was found be an important predictor studen...