A Study of Cognitive Styles Effect on ESL Students’ General Writing Ability

Faezeh Shojaei, Kedutso Kapfo

Abstract


The Purpose of this study is to find out the effect of field dependent-independent cognitive styles on ESL students general writing ability. 80 International ESL Iranian students studying in different colleges in Mysore City, India participated in this investigation. Two groups of 40 homogenized ESL students based on GEFT have been organized and participants were asked to do essay writing test. Based on data analysis of descriptive and independent sample t-test, it has been revealed that cognitive style has a significant effect on general writing ability and field-independent students outperformed field-dependent ones.

Keywords


Cognitive Style; Field-Dependent; Field-Independent; Writing Ability; ESL Students

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