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Weiwei Zhang has just completed her PhD study at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. She has had rich experience in managing language programmes and teaching English as a foreign language in China and New Zealand. Her publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Frontiers in Psychology, Language Testing, and other Chinese journals of foreign languages and foreign language education.
This mixed-methods study investigated English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ perceptions of task difficulty and their use of metacognitive strategies in completing integrated speaking tasks as empirical evidence for the effects of metacognitive instruction. A total of 130 university students were invited to complete four integrated speaking tasks and answer a metacognitive strategy inventory and a self-rating scale. A sub-sample of eight students participated in the subsequent interviews. One-way repeated measures MANOVA and structure coding with content analysis led to two main findings: (a) EFL learners’ use of metacognitive strategies, in particular, problem-solving, was considerably affected by their perceptions of task difficulty in completing the integrated speaking tasks; (b) EFL learners were not active users of metacognitive strategies in performing these tasks. These findings not only support the necessity of taking into account learners’ perceptions of task difficulty in designing lesson plans for metacognitive instruction, but also support a metacognitive instruction model. In addition, the findings provide empirical support for the utility of Kormos’ Bilingual Speech Production Model. As the integrated speaking tasks came from a high-stakes test, these findings also offer validity evidence for test development in language assessment to ascertain sustainable EFL learning for nurturing learner autonomy as an ultimate goal.
Weiwei Zhang; Donglan Zhang; Lawrence Zhang. Metacognitive Instruction for Sustainable Learning: Learners’ Perceptions of Task Difficulty and Use of Metacognitive Strategies in Completing Integrated Speaking Tasks. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6275 .
AMA StyleWeiwei Zhang, Donglan Zhang, Lawrence Zhang. Metacognitive Instruction for Sustainable Learning: Learners’ Perceptions of Task Difficulty and Use of Metacognitive Strategies in Completing Integrated Speaking Tasks. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6275.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWeiwei Zhang; Donglan Zhang; Lawrence Zhang. 2021. "Metacognitive Instruction for Sustainable Learning: Learners’ Perceptions of Task Difficulty and Use of Metacognitive Strategies in Completing Integrated Speaking Tasks." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6275.
Weiwei Zhang. Teaching Language Online: A Guide for Designing, Developing and Delivering Online, Blended, and Flipped Language Courses, Victoria Russell, Kathryn Murphy-Judy. Routledge, New York, NY (2021), P. XXXIX + 276. System 2021, 102533 .
AMA StyleWeiwei Zhang. Teaching Language Online: A Guide for Designing, Developing and Delivering Online, Blended, and Flipped Language Courses, Victoria Russell, Kathryn Murphy-Judy. Routledge, New York, NY (2021), P. XXXIX + 276. System. 2021; ():102533.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWeiwei Zhang. 2021. "Teaching Language Online: A Guide for Designing, Developing and Delivering Online, Blended, and Flipped Language Courses, Victoria Russell, Kathryn Murphy-Judy. Routledge, New York, NY (2021), P. XXXIX + 276." System , no. : 102533.