investigating the effectiveness of direct cognitive strategy instruction in improving students’ writing skills : the case of second year licence students of english at kasdi merbah university of ouargla
The present study aims at investigating the effectiveness of direct cognitive strategy instruction in improving the students’ writing skills. To answer the research question and to test the hypothesis an exploratory study was conducted for this research. The researcher used two research tools: A questionnaire was administered to 10 written expression teachers and A quasi-experimental study (pre-test, treatment phase, post-test) for second year license students at the Department of Letters and English at the University “Kasdi Merbah”, Ouargla. Between the two tests there was an instructional phase with the aim of teaching students the writing strategies through the use of direct cognitive strategy instruction. The results confirmed the significance and the positive impact of this instruction on the students’ writing skills. Based on the findings, we conclude that the writing performance of the experimental group participants’ is highly improved compared to the control group. (Author’s abstract)