THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORKING MEMORY AND ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY WRITING AMONG PAKISTANI IELTS TEST TAKERS

Abstract

This correlational research study aimed at exploring the relationship between working memory capacity and argumentative writing proficiency of Pakistani IELTS test takers. The goal of this research was to check whether working memory proves helpful in enhancing the writing proficiency of students or remains the same. This study involved 128 (41 female, 87 male) Pakistani IELTS test takers as its population. The study manipulated three instruments (prompt for essay from www.org.ielts scoring rubric of IELTS and OSPAN) for collecting required data. Later to analyse the data SPSS 23rd version was used. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient
was calculated to achieve required objectives of current study. The results of Pearson product moment correlation (r (126) =.071, p =.428) depicted that there was no significant correlation between working memory and essay writing proficiency of Pakistani IELTS test takers. The results of this research concluded that there was no correlation between working memory and writing proficiency of Pakistani IELTS test takers.