5.1. Strategy use
A close analysis of the data revealed that while writing in their electronic portfolios, both
EFL learners employed an array of strategies in writing—cognitive strategy including
resourcing, memory strategy including rote memorization, and metacognitive strategies
including planning, goal-setting, and self-assessment. Since cognitive and memory strategies
were typically found to be the most popular strategies with language learners (Oxford, 1990),
they were used by these two learners to store and manipulate an amount of information such
as new vocabulary and rhetorical expressions.