ESL Learners Attitude towards Metacognition Approach for Learning Creative Writing at University Level

Abstract

This research is an effort of improving the existing methods, and main focus of the research is to judge the effects of Metacognitive Approach on Creative Writing among the learners of private sector at university level. Metacognition Approach is helpful in teaching Creative Writing in ESL classrooms; moreover, it saves time and develops self-confidence, improve Critical Thinking of ESL learners. This quasi-experimental research was done to observe the effect of Metacognitive Approach on Creative Writing. The participants for this research were thirty ESL Learners of university level. The sample size was selected from two private sector universities one from Karachi and other from Lahore city. For instrumentation “Students’ Attitude Assessment Questionnaire” (SAAQ) was used for data collection and congregated data were later analyzed by the researchers by means of “Statistical Package of Social Sciences” (SPSS) latest version, and data were presented in numerical form in tables. The findings of this research show that Metacognitive Approach is much better for teaching Creative Writing and ESL learners have positive attitude towards Metacognitive Approach to learn creative writing. In the end researchers presented some recommendations.