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Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana
Print version ISSN 1794-4724On-line version ISSN 2145-4515
Abstract
ESCORCIA, Dyanne. Metacognitive knowledge and self-regulation: A qualitative lecture of students functioning in writing. Av. Psicol. Latinoam. [online]. 2010, vol.28, n.2, pp.265-277. ISSN 1794-4724.
This research emerges from the world-wide problematic concerning students failure. It particularly analyzes the meta-cognitive competences in the writing process of this population. Based on Flavells (1992) viewpoint about meta-cognition and the socio-cognitive approach of self-regulation, two variables were measured: meta-cognitive knowledge and self-regulation strategies. A qualitative study was conducted on a sample of 12 French students at first year university. This study uses a specific technique of interview known as "explicitation interview". The data analysis included the categorization, codification and quantification of the information obtained with the interviews. In conclusion, even though the students had metacognitive knowledge related to the written tasks, they did not show strategies that could help to go beyond the descriptive modality of written discourses by taking into account the readers expectations. Their writing processes focused on transcription of ideas with little control on the planning and revision phases.
Keywords : metacognition; writing skills; college students; self-evaluation; goals; self-report.