While listening plays an important role in the process of foreign/second language learning, different factors can affect this process. This study was designed to assess the relationship between listening anxiety and metacognitive strategy awareness with a special interest in the role of gender and proficiency level. In order to conduct this survey, two instruments including the Metacognitive Aw...

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 ...

This investigation sought to determine the role of cognitive word knowledge in metacognitive development. Subjects were fifth graders, seventh graders, tenth graders, and college undergraduates. Each subject completed a Likert scale self-report qWstiomuNire that measured the frequency of their metacognitive strategy use and a multiple-choice test that measured their cognitive word knowledge. Ac...

Metacognitive skills have been commonly associated with preparation for future learning in deductive domains. Many researchers regarded strategy- and time-awareness as two metacognitive that address how when to use a problem-solving strategy, respectively. It was shown students who are both time-aware (StrTime) outperformed their nonStrTime peers across In this work, were trained on logic tutor...

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 current study aimed to examine the language learning strategy use of Chinese EFL students in a British university and to explore the impacts of gender on the selection of these strategies. 102 postgraduate students from Newcastle University in the UK were investigated through the administration of Oxford’s (1989) SILL and 20 of them were also interviewed. Significant differences were discov...

Self-regulation of behavior is mediated by the frontal lobes and commonly disrupted after a traumatic brain injury. The rehabilitation field is only now beginning to understand self-regulation as a set of dynamic relationships between metacognitive beliefs and knowledge, ongoing self-monitoring or self-assessment during activities, and self-control (i.e., strategy decisions). This article provi...