Indonesian Secondary School Students’ Self-Regulated Writing Strategy: A Small-Scale Survey Study

Abstract

This current research aims to describe the self-regulated writing strategies used by Indonesian secondary schoolstudents. This study also aims to identify whether gender difference exists in students'' use of self-regulated writing strategies. A small-scale survey involved 65 grade 12 students at a high school in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The self-regulatory Writing Strategies Questionnaire (SRWSQ) developed by Teng, Wang, and Zhang (2022) consists of 30 items and 6 domains was used as the instrument of the study. Descriptive Analysis and independent t-tests were conducted to analyze the data. It was found that Metacognitive Judgment is the domain with the highest value (M= 5.585, SD= 1.263) among other SRWSQ domains. Goal-oriented Evaluation got the lowest score (M= 5.1, SD= 1.22). There are statistically significant differences between females and males found in one of the domains of SRWSQ, the Goal-oriented Evaluation domain (p 0.005<0.05). This research then revealed that secondary schoolstudents in Indonesia very often use self-regulated writing strategies, especially the Metacognitive Judgment strategy, and rarely use Goal-Oriented Evaluation strategies when writing. It also revealed that female students tended to use more self-regulated writing strategies compared to male students. For further research, the researcher suggests conducting other research to prove the effect of using self- regulation strategies in writing on students' writing assignment results, expanding the test of differences not only limited to gender and increasing the number of participants.