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PA plays a crucial role in the context of AaL framework as it

facilitates the active engagement of students in the educational process.

By encouraging students to contribute their perspectives, PA fosters a

collaborative learning environment where students can enhance their

listening skills, analytical abilities, and problem-solving capabilities

through peer interaction. PA allows them to interact with diversity in

various ways, leading to criticism and assessment. Students are

instructed to encourage independent study and take ownership of their

education.

Several empirical studies have investigated the implementation of

SA and PA in writing instruction. The results have demonstrated the

significance of SA and PA in developing students' writing abilities.

First, Mazloomi and Khabiri (2016) examined the influence of SA

training on students' writing ability as a writing task. The students were

instructed to compose an expository essay. The researchers divided the

sixty university students into two groups (the control group and the

experimental group), but SA only intervened with the evaluations in the

experimental group. They discovered that the application of SA

significantly impacts the development of students' writing skills and

their general language proficiency. Ratminingsih et al. (2018) also

examined the contribution of SA to developing writing abilities in the

EFL context in Indonesia. They discovered that using SA

affects students' independence and writing skills. Moreover, Vasu et al.

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