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Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Volume 16. Number 1, March 2025 Pp.252-266
Department of English, College of Education/ IbnRushd for Human Sciences
University Of Baghdad, Baghdad, IRAQ
The need for metacognitive awareness for effective writing is being increasingly acknowledged. Examining how Iraqi EFL university students’ metacognitive awareness levels correlate with their writing abilities is the primary goal of this research. Similarly, for the 2022–2023 school year, 360 students from various Iraqi EFL universities made up the study’s sample. A writing performance exam and a questionnaire designed by Schraw and Dennison (1994) were utilized to assess students’ metacognitive awareness and writing abilities, respectively, to accomplish this study’s goals. Researchers used descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation coefficient to determine the association. According to the study’s findings, students’ metacognitive awareness was significantly correlated with their writing skills. The finding proved that improving students’ writing performance required metacognitive awareness in language learning. Additionally, the findings indicate a favorable association between metacognitive awareness and writing proficiency. The study searched to answer the following questions: what is the Correlation Between Iraqi EFL University Students’ metacognitive awareness and writing performance? This study aims to determine the relationship between Iraqi EFL University Students’ metacognitive awareness and their writing performance.
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Dr. Sabeeha Hamza Dehham. A professor of Curriculum and instruction with an interest in TESOL, methods of teaching English, and Applied Linguistics, department of English Language, College of Basic Education, University of Babylon, Iraq. Her research interests include linguistics, e-learning, mind-mapping, flipping classrooms, and methods of teaching English.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0 000-0002-8308-4996.
Dr. Salam Hamid Abbas. A professor of English at the English Department, College of Education, University of Baghdad, Iraq. He has a Ph.D. in ELT. His research interests include English teaching methods and materials, developing teaching modules, models, and materials, and developing the students’ English skills. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7202-495