A Study on the Employment of Metacognitive Reading Strategies among University-Level Preparatory Class Students

The purpose of this study is to find out how much the students are aware metacognitive reading strategies that can be applied while and whether there any differences in usage these terms gender, level at university, department high school. In case, research was descriptive nature used general survey model. group made up 474 from preparatory classes a foundation university for academic year 2021–2022. This sought ascertain degree which students, who Department Foreign Languages Ankara, read literature using strategies. To measure determine if were connections between students' comprehension strategies, Metacognitive Reading Strategies Questionnaire (MRSQ), developed by Taraban, Rynearson, Kerr (2004), chosen as tool employ they reading. MRSQ questionnaire deemed appropriate because it translated into Turkish Çöğmen Saracaloğlu (2010) after conducting validity reliability tests proved research. According data obtained questionnaire, statistically significant difference found students’ scores their genders school departments attended, but not grade levels. research's findings may shed light on make use when texts English, papers, school-related resources.