Developing International EFL/ESL Scholarly Writers

5 Performance Enhancing Measures

5.1 How self-report was used to collect data from student participants

Self-report is a type of verbal report for collecting data from student participants. Two types of verbal report were used as sources of data in this study: (1) the written questionnaire, and (2) the oral interview. Data obtained from the written questionnaire were uniformly organized for student participants. They lent themselves to (quantitative) statistical analysis and to (qualitative) uniform description of participants’ academic writing processes, allowing for comparison. Data obtained from oral interview, used in conjunction with probes about student participant responses to the written questionnaire, provided clarification and elaboration, ...