This research aimed to probe the effect of two different models of metacognitive strategy instruction on the listening performance of EFL learners in Iran. 83 intermediate EFL learners in four groups, two male and two female groups were the participants. The participants in the first experimental groups – a male and a female group – were undergone a ten-week treatment including the linear strat...

objective: the present study aimed to investigate the metacognitive model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd), through a comparative study of thought fusion beliefs and thought control strategies between patients with ocd, depression, and normal people. methods: this is a causal-comparative study. about 20 patients were selected with ocd, and 20 patients with major depression disorder (mdd),...

the purpose of this study was twofold. firstly, it attempted to investigate whether language learning strategies (llss) can predict foreign language (fl) proficiency. secondly, it examined what kind of llss iranian learners of english use more frequently in fl institutes. to do so, 112 intermediate iranian efl learners participated in the study. oxford’s strategy inventory for language learning...

PURPOSE The aim of this randomized clinical trial study was to evaluate the efficacy of an intervention program based on social mediation, cooperative learning and metacognition (Metacognitive Dimension) in preadolescents with acquired brain injury (ABI). PARTICIPANTS/METHODS Participants were 29 ABI preadolescents: 14 in the experimental group and 15 in the control group (average age, 10.4 y...

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 ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy, cognitive meta cognitive strategies with academic achievement among students high school boys nomads of Fars Province. The research method is descriptive – correlational. The population of this study, all high school students nomads of of Fars province is in the 90-91 school year were enrolled. Cluster sampl...

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...

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...