The study of learning and memory has a long and veritable history in psychological research. One recent and important development is the growth of research in metamemory—the study of what people understand about their memory and how they use that knowledge to direct their own learning experiences in service of their goals. Metamemory research has been guided in part by the framework proposed by...

The role of metacognitive skills in the evidence analysis process has received little attention in the research literature. While the steps of the evidence analysis process are well defined, the role of higher-level cognitive operations (metacognitive strategies) in integrating the steps of the process is not well understood. In part, this is because it is not clear where and how metacognition ...

This study focused primarily on an investigation of how four reading strategies training (cognitive, metacognitive, compensation, and testing strategies) affect the development of Taiwanese EFL learners’ reading comprehension. Specifically, this study aimed to identify different reading strategy uses among good and poor readers. One hundred and ten seniors (27 males and 83 females) majoring in ...

summary writing is associated with lots of cognitive and metacognitive complexities that necessitates instruction (hirvela & du, 2013). contrary to majority of studies carried out on summarization instruction, the present study addressed the underlying processes or microgenetic developments of the iranian efl learners’ summary writing. to this end, 41 male and female undergraduate students ...

background due to the lack of enough researches on the impaired underlying mechanisms in the obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) and also existence of new psychological therapies such as metacognitive therapy and neurofeedback, the application of mentioned mechanisms in the new therapies can be introduced as a possible effective option with more long term effects to treat ocd. objectives the cu...

Grammar Instruction to Young Adolescents at Lower Proficiency Levels Through Metacognitive Intervention