Socio-cultural theorists consider self-regulation (SR) a vital personal characteristic that can guide individuals in reaching their personal and more importantly their learning goals, specifically when learning languages is involved. This necessitates empowering learners as far as their SR skill is involved. Thus, training SR strategies, among other measures, seems to be a very important mission in language learning process. The aim of the current study was, therefore, to expound the effect of training SR skills (observation, emulation, self-control, and self-regulation) upon the writing skill through applying a package adopted from Zimmerman's Model (2013). The model encompassed 12 self-regulated learning strategies (self-evaluation, organizing and transforming, goal-setting and planning, seeking information, keeping records and monitoring, environmental structuring, self-consequences, rehearsing and memorizing, seeking social assistance and reviewing records) that focused on the writing skill of 57 intermediate Iranian EFL learners in an online platform. In the course of a semi-experimental study, the SR profile as well as performance in writing tasks of participants divided into two groups, namely control (n=30) and experimental (n=27), were measured through a five-point Likert scale questionnaire as well as writing tasks, both pre to treatment for homogeneity purposes and post to treatment for comparison purposes, respectively. Results of a set of non-parametric Mann Whitney U tests showed that training SR strategies did not significantly affect the writing skill of intermediate EFL learners in the context of the current study. Given the limitations embedded in online platforms including technological shortcomings, online learning and education literacy, motivational factors, etc., especially in the context of Iran, it was concluded that although some training processes work very well in real classes, they may not be effective in online courses. Consequently, as far as an effective online instruction is involved, the first step should be to overcome the shortcomings in advance and then, online training of SR can be initiated.
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- Saeide Badali (Author), 2023, The Effect of Training Self-Regulation Strategies on the Writing Skill of Intermediate EFL Learners in online classes, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/1684051
