“…In support of Ellis's (1997) findings, Maimon (2001) demonstrated benefits of culturally based metacognitive strategies for improving the writing skills of students from a non-English speaking background. While the benefits of social guidance are widely documented in the literature on adult (Clark-Stewart & Beck, 1999) and peer guidance (e.g., Goos, Galbraith, & Renshaw, 2002;King, 2002), it is not yet known to what extent metacognitive guidance is rooted in cultural-familial processes, and whether variations in metacognitive guidance exist across cultures.…”