The SPM 2003 report and the national analysis on the MUET writing component indicated that pre university students who sat for the English paper did not fare well in Paper Four, the extended writing section. This illustrated that the majority of the candidates had yet to master the writing skills in English. Based on the reports above, the purpose of this study was to overcome the problem before hand by implementing a series of writing activities that incorporates selected metacognitive strategies that covered the areas of planning, monitoring, adapting and evaluating learning and learning outcomes. This study adopted the two-group, pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design, whereby a total of seventy pre-university students from a rural based secondary school in Sungkai, Perak were chosen as samples. As this study looked at the MUET Paper Four achievements, the research instrument used in this study was the October 2003 MUET Paper Four writing component. This question was chosen as i.....

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