Understanding Learners’ Cognitive Abilities: A Model of Mobilizing Non-English Majors’ Cognitive Abilities in the Process of Their Writing in English

摘要

＜正＞ Previous researches on non-English majors’ English writingmainly focus on the case studies of process-oriented writing,collaborative writing, writing through groups, coherent tiesand chains, or writing strategies used in non-English majors’English writing. Little research has been done on therelationship between learners’ cognitive ability and their writingproducts. Based on the cognitive psychology theory, Skehan’sresearch findings "The correlations between aptitude tests andlearning of success are due not to a distinct aptitude, but instead