The Role of Metacognitive Strategies and Emotional Intelligence in Predicting the Writing Skills of the Sixth Grade Students

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between metacognitive strategies and emotional intelligence with writing skills of the 6th grade elementary school students in Arak city.

This is a descriptive-correlational study in which statistical population of this study in cluded 4185 students of sixth grade elementary school in Arak city in the Year 2019. ampling method was random stratified and the sample size included 351 according to Krejcie and Morgan method. Data were collected using Mokhtari & Reichard' Metacognitive Strategies Questionnaire (2002), Petrides & Farnham's Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (2006) and Self Made Writting Skills Test. Pearson correlation and regression tests were used to analyze the data.

The results of Pearson correlation showed that there was a positive correlation between writing skills with metacognitive strategies (r = 0.42, p <0.01) and with emotional intelligence (r = 0.45, p <0.01). Regression results also showed that emotional intelligence (p = 0.01, β = 0.30) and metacognitive strategies (p <0.01, β = 0.21) were able to predict writing skills.

Based on the findings of the study،metacognitive strategies and emotional in telligence can be used in the elementary education to improve the student’s writing skills.