Few studies have investigated the detailed procedure of systematically delivering and teaching metacognitive strategies in higher education. This study investigates whether explicit training could improve undergraduates’ online reading comprehension over pandemic. The results this contribute to teacher education programs teach apply regularly strategies. In a quasi-experimental design, experime...

This research explored how website analysis and design pedagogy could help support analytical thinking and English language production in an EFL context. In this study, 28 EFL-based computer science students took part in a website analysis experiment. The study investigated if students could analyze English websites and comprehend and produce responses in English for eight open-ended questions,...

Reading strategies are crucial in education. This research focused on Timorese language students’ levels of reading strategies. It attempted to answer two questions; (1) What the metacognitive awareness strategies? and (2) How do students apply their experiences? A mixed-method design was adopted. Mokhtari & Sheorey’s (2002) Survey Strategies (SoRS) used collect quantitative data. The findi...

This study aimed at investigating the correlations among three major dimensions of individual differences, learning styles, motivation and strategy use in reading English as a foreign language (EFL). Subjects were 422 Taiwanese undergraduate students from different levels who were classified into two groups according to their reading performance. Three questionnaires were adapted from various r...

This study investigated EFL learners’ self-perceived metacognitive strategy use with the revised Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI-R). Data collection followed two steps. In first step, 213 learners responded to inventory twice (before and after a reading comprehension task). second 81 out participants answered an open survey inquiring perception changes d...

The crucial impact of knowing about learners reading strategies to acquire a second language has been widely accepted. Therefore, this paper reports study investigating university students' awareness their when they read English academic texts. As many as 39 first-year students took part the research subject, and answered 30-item questionnaire on strategies. A four-point Likert Scale named SORS...

Metacognitive awareness is considered a crucial factor in reading comprehension. In the present study, quantitative research method was applied using descriptive statistics, T-test, and ANOVA to identify: (1) What second language (L2) Vietnamese students’ metacognitive of strategies? (2) Are there any significant differences between male female L2 students (3) good, medium, poor readers One hun...