The present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of meta-cognitive strategy (planning, self-monitoring) awareness raising instruction on reading comprehension of Iranian ESP learners. Participants of three groups each comprising of 21 Iranian male students studying “Civil Engineering” in “Islamic Azad University of Buin Zahra” were selected and assigned to three groups: two experiment...

This paper discusses the potential of technology-mediated forms of L2 strategy instruction (SI) to not only facilitate SI but to enhance evaluation of SI interventions and L2 strategy research more generally. It uses results from a recent empirical study to show how computer-based forms of SI may offer remedies for problematic features of evaluation, including access to process data showing how...

This experimental research investigates the impact of teaching metacognitive reading strategies on comprehension engineering students in English for Science and Technology(EST) context. is first empirical study its kind Libyan as a Foreign Language (EFL/EST) The utilizes Survey Reading Strategies (SORS) achievement test extracted from ‘Oxford Computing’ by Boechner Brown (instruction manual). t...

background and purpose: causal relationships between coping strategies, metacognitive beliefs and test anxiety, according to the self-regulatory executive function model of wells and matthews (1999) in college students was evaluated. material and methods: 638 students of tarbiat moallem university of tehran and agriculturalogy faculty were participated from aban to azar 2010 by quota sampling m...

Five 8- to 10-year-old children with dysphonetic and dyseidetic dyslexia were given instruction in reading comprehension using a story grammar strategy in which story instruction was differentially designed to match the simultaneous or sequential mental processing strengths of each dyslexia subtype. A multiple baseline, single subject experimental design and statistical analyses indicated that ...

this study aimed to compare some of the most important metacognitive belifes and thought control strategies among students with normal and pathological worry.the sample consisted of 146 undergratuate students selected by multiple clustering method.all subjects were asked to complete metacognitive belifes questionaire ( mcq(, penn state worry questionaure(pswq) and thought control strategies ( t...

This mixed-methods study investigated English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ perceptions of task difficulty and their use metacognitive strategies in completing integrated speaking tasks as empirical evidence for the effects instruction. A total 130 university students were invited to complete four answer a strategy inventory self-rating scale. sub-sample eight participated subsequent in...

Two experiments investigated the development of metacognitive monitoring and control, and conditions under which children engage these processes. In Experiment 1, 5-year-olds (N = 30) and 7-year-olds (N = 30), unlike adults (N = 30), showed little evidence of either monitoring or control. In Experiment 2, 5-year-olds (N = 90) were given performance feedback (aimed at improving monitoring), inst...