3 Determining What International Student Writers Know and Can Do

3.1 Self-report instrument describing strategic competence

A set of questionnaires was designed to collect data from the six research participants that maximized sophisticated choices for engaging in multilingual academic legal research and scholarly writing. The concept of “strategic competence” was operationally defined as appropriate use of learner internal and learner external literacy strategies and language skills to show communicative competence and domain learning in scholarly legal writing. The Strategic Competence Questionnaire (SCQ) developed for this study consists of four instruments corresponding to different stages in the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, ...

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