Self-Assessment Of English Writing Skills And Use Of Writing Strategies Among 1st Year Students Of Um Panabo College

Abstract

The study aimed to establish the relationship between self-assessment of English writing skills and use of writing strategies in UM Panabo College. The independent variable of this study was self-assessment of English writing skills. The dependent variable was use of writing strategies and its indicators were before writing and after writing. The researchers use quantitative, non-experimental, and correlation relation design and the statistical tools were Mean and Pearson-r. The result of the computation using r-value 0.560 associated with the not significant value of 0.000 of P-value which is less than the alpha of 0.05. Moreover, there is a significant relationship between self-assessment of English writing skills and use of writing strategies of students in UM Panabo College. It indicates that self-assessment plays a role in making the use of writing strategies that is to be taught to the students.

Keywords: Self-assessment of English writing skills, Use of writing strategies