Abstract Language learners in higher education increasingly use out-of-class self-directed learning facilitated by mobile technology. In order to make informed educational decisions, this study sets out provide an overview of empirical research into strategies that with the support technology language learning. Twenty studies were selected and systematically analysed, revealing cognitive, metac...

the current study was after probing the would-be correlation between emotional intelligence (and its subcomponents), on the one hand, and metacognitive listening strategies used by academic efl learners, on the other. benefiting from 72 female and 40 male university students from urmia university, urmia azad university and salams azad university, the current study also strived to find the possi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is common to multiple emotional disorders and occurs before, during, and following a stressor. One replicated difference between common forms of RNT such as worry and rumination is temporal orientation towards a stressor, with worry being more future-oriented and rumination more past-oriented. Different mechanisms may drive RNT at the...

This study aims to examine the strategies utilized by eleven postgraduate students in an EFL university context in their attempts to acquire the textual practices of their discipline. First- and second-year MA students, one Ph.D. student as well as individuals who had completed their MA programs in TEFL took part in interviews in order to elicit the strategies they used when they endeavored to ...

Computer programming is a part of the curriculum in computer science education, and high drop rates for this subject are a universal problem. Development of metacognitive skills, including the conceptual framework provided by socio-cognitive theories that afford reflective thinking, such as actively monitoring, evaluating, and modifying one’s thinking, has been identified as important for novic...

worry is considered as one of the shared cognitive components in generalized anxiety disorder (gad) and obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd). the study of cognitive factors influencing worry simultaneously has important implications for psychopathology. these factors have been discussed separately in different theoretical models. the aim of the present study was to investigate the simple and mul...

This research paper investigation concerned with understanding the mechanisms and designing a rules of Metacontrol and Metacognition. This work investigated the concept of metacognition as a powerful catalyst for control, unify and self-reflection. Metacontrol is a part of the Metacognition task. Metacontrol rules decides which deliberative agents are to be learned and ready to perform in diffe...