Motivation and self-regulated strategy use: Relationships to primary school students’ English writing in Hong Kong

This study was to examine the individual differences in primary school students’ motivation (i.e. growth mindset, self-efficacy, and interest), self-regulated learning strategy use in English writing and the relationships between motivation, strategy use and English writing competence. Participants were 523 4 th grade primary school students in Hong Kong. Although the findings showed a general pattern that the high achievers reported higher...