The impact of self-regulation programme on Iraqi EFL University students' motivation

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The present study is an attempt at designing a selfregulation learning programme in essay writing for Iraqi third year university students at the Departments of English/Colleges of Education.

The proposed programme is supposed to help students use cognitive, metacognitive and motivational self-regulation strategies in their writings س It aims atfinding out the impact of using self-regulation programme learning on college students' motivation toward writing The sample of the present study consists of 50 third year students at the Department of English, College of Education, University of Al-Qadissiyah for the academic year 2013- 2014.

The sample is divided into two sections that are randomly selected.

One of them is selected to be the experimental group (section c) and the other is the control group ( section B).

To achieve the aims of the present study, a self-regulation programme in teaching essay has been designed according to Harris and Graham's model of Self-Regulated Strategy Development سAn experiment has been conducted.

The experimental group has been taught essay writing according to the proposed programme, whereas the control group has been taught according to the conventional ways .At the end of the experiment which has lasted for 12 weeks, a post-test of essay writing has been conducted and post administrations the writing motivation scale have been applied to both groups س After analyzing the results of the post-test and the postadministration of the scale statistically, it has been revealed that the experimental group subjects' level of motivation toward writing has been found to be higher than that of the control group.

Based on the findings of the study, the researcher concludes that the proposed programme plays an effective role increasing students' motivation toward writing.

Finally, a number of practical recommendations, pedagogical implications and suggestions for further research are put forward