This study investigated how English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners with different learning styles (Field dependent and field independent) boost up their reading comprehension abilities as they develop their metacognitive skills. To conduct this research, 60 participants were randomly invited to sit PET (Preliminary English Test) to ensure homogeneity of the participants in terms of language...

Current research supports the role of metacognitive strategies to enhance reading comprehension. This study measured the effectiveness of online versus face-to-face metacognitive and active reading skills lessons introduced by Biology faculty to college students in a nonmajors introductory biology course. These lessons were delivered in two lectures either online (Group 1: N = 154) or face to f...

This article examines the role of cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational skills in problem solving. Cognitive skills include instructional objectives, components in a learning hierarchy, and components in information processing. Metacognitive skills include strategies for reading comprehension, writing, and mathematics. Motivational skills include motivation based on interest, self-efficacy...

Reading comprehension is one of the core learning abilities that plenty learners struggle with. Being an active process reading and extracting meaning from text, this cognitive skill requires effective use strategic processes. To help perform better in comprehension, action research, which aims to identify effects metacognitive strategies on level thirty-three Grade-7 L2 learners, was conducted...

This study dealt with the students’ language profile, metacognitive reading strategies, and comprehension performance adopting descriptive-correlational method of four hundred forty-six randomly selected students enrolled in colleges Forestry, Education, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology a Philippine State University. Instruments used to gather data were based on an expert v...