Quantitative analysis of the effects of English majors' planning variables on their writing performance

Planning,one of the important subprocesses of the complicated writing process,guarantees the final success of the writing product.The present study,employing such tools as questionnaire,SPSS and LISREL,makes a quantitative analysis of the effects of different planning variables on the writing performance of English majors,with the finding that metacognitive knowledge about planning,planning strategies and pre-task planning time all exert influences on the writing performance,while the amount of Chinese involved in the planning process does not.The finding contributes to the development of L2 writing theory.