Title: Influence of writing tasks and self-awareness reflective writing exercises on emergent researchers' academic writing

Authors: Chin-Wen Chien

Addresses: Department of English Instruction, National Tsing Hua University, No. 521, Nanda Road, Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan

Abstract: Authentic academic writing tasks should be integrated to assist emergent researchers to acquire academic literacy in the university. This case study explored the influence of writing tasks and self-awareness reflective writing exercises on six English as a foreign language (EFL) emergent researchers' academic writing and their attitudes in a northwest university in Taiwan. The analysis of interviews, writing tasks, and documents concluded that the clear and step-by step procedure on writing tasks and reflective writing exercises led these emergent researchers to examine the important elements of academic writing. Participants held a positive attitude toward the writing tasks and reflective writing exercises. The proposed conceptual framework can provide the guidelines for practitioners in designing instructional practices on writing tasks and reflective writing exercises for EFL emergent researchers.

Keywords: academic writing; emergent researchers; instructional practice; reflective writing exercises; writing tasks; English as a foreign language; EFL.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2023.134098

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2023 Vol.16 No.4, pp.395 - 410

Received: 06 Jul 2021
Accepted: 07 Sep 2022
Published online: 11 Oct 2023 *

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