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The Design and Implementation of a Short Course, Focusing on Metacognition, to Develop Writing Skills for University Students for Whom English Is an Additional Language: An Action Research Study

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What is an appropriate structure for reporting a study of designing a short course to develop the writing skills of EAL university students to cope with the university assignments when following the interpretive and critical paradigms and adopting action research methodology?

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  1. University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia

    Adnan Satariyan & Bronwyn Reynolds

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia

    David Kember

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Satariyan, A., Reynolds, B., Kember, D. (2018). The Design and Implementation of a Short Course, Focusing on Metacognition, to Develop Writing Skills for University Students for Whom English Is an Additional Language: An Action Research Study. In: Kember, D., Corbett, M. (eds) Structuring the Thesis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_13

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