56 Based on
the students‟ response above, most of the students re-checked their writing by re-reading it during the process of writing activity. According to
Zhang 2013, i t can increase students‟ abilities to transfer or adapt their learning
to new contexts and tasks. Furthermore, it also includes a critical awareness of one‟s thinking and learning. Therefore, they need to apply metacognitive
strategies to monitor their learning process and their writing ability will be developed.
c. To
Evaluate Students’ Learning
According to Fogarty 1994, the evaluation that the students do after completing the task will help them to monitor their understanding in the learning
process. Since metacognitive strategy goes beyond cognitive, Oxford 1990 also states that it provides a way for learner to coordinate their own learning process.
The strategy also helps them in evaluating their progress or goals and they can use self-evaluating as the progress of their own work. As the students finished their
writing, according to the interview result, most of them evaluate their writing by using their own strategy. In the interview, the students confirmed:
Diperiksa kembali. Diganti. Biar lebih bagus. I re-checked my writing. I made changes. I wanted to make it better.
Student 1 Iya. Biar keliahatan rapi, lebih bagus lagi
I re-checked. I made changes. I wanted to make it neat and better. Student 2
Membaca ulang lagi. Iya. Diganti, biar aku enak membacanya I re-read. I re-checked. I made changes in order to make it easier to be
read. Student 3 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
57 Membaca ulang. Iya. Ya iya, diganti. Ya, biar sesuai isinya.
I re-read my writing. I re-checked. I made changes. In my opinion, the writing could be suitable and fit with the content of the writing. Student
4
Membaca lagi. Iya. Ganti. Ya, supaya hasilnya bagus. I re-read my writing. I often re-read my writing. I made changes. I
wanted to make a good result. Student 5
Based on the students‟ responses, all students re-checked their writing after they had done their writing task to check whether the writing had already been
appropriate or not. Metacognitive learning strategies help students to become aware of evaluating their progress toward the completion of a task. It will help the
students to develop and improve their language skills, especially writing skills. Therefore, it could be a good strategy that they can apply in the writing activity.
According to Nunan 2009, the appropriate learning strategy could be the basis of many aspects in learning. Based on the interview result, most of the
students confirmed that they have not had any specific strategy, but they apply their own learning strategy, especially for the writing activity. The strategy helps
the students to organise their ideas and decrease the difficulties in writing the text. In the interview, the students said:
Ada. Membuat rencana, tulisannya dibuat sesingkat mungkin supaya yang membaca mudah
Yes, I make plans and make the writing as shortest as possible so that the reader can read easily. Student 1
Belum. Iya.. membuat.. apa ya namanya.. kerangkanya No, I do not. Yes, I made the structure of the body. Student 2
