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Assessing ESL Students ’ Awareness and Application of Metacognitive Strategies in Comprehending Academic Materials
Abstract: Comprehension is one of the major challenges second language learners face during the reading process. One way of solving this problem is to create awareness and instruct learners to apply some learning strategies. The essence of this study is to examine students ’ awareness and application of metacognitive strategies in comprehending academic materials. Participants were 120 secondary students who completed a survey of reading strategies aimed at discerning the strategies readers report using when coping with academic reading tasks. Data collected were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics involving frequency counts, percentages and Pearson product moment correlation statistics. The result revealed that secondary school students were aware of metacognitive strategies in reading and comprehension exercises. Finding showed that students applied these strategies in comprehending academic materials. It is also revealed that there was significant relationship between students ’ awareness and application of metacognitive strategies. It was therefore recommended that learners should be guided into using different metacognitive strategies in reading and comprehension since students who demonstrate a wide range of metacognitive skills perform better in examinations and complete work more efficiently.
Keyword: application and metacognition; awareness; English as a second language; reading; strategies
URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.301.7620
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