There still exist lacunae in our understanding of howness and the effectiveness of metacognitive strategy training for various language skills in most EFL contexts; most notably in input-poor environments. The present study sought to investigate the possible effects of metacognitive strategy training on vocabulary strategies awareness and vocabulary knowledge among Iranian EFL learners. The exp...

BACKGROUND Previous research has described the success of an intervention aimed at improving older adults' ability to regulate their learning. This metacognitive approach involves teaching older adults to allocate their study time more efficiently by testing themselves and restudying items that are less well learned. OBJECTIVE Although this type of memory intervention has shown promise, train...

This study analyzed discussion in an online conference that supplemented class discussion within a traditional graduate level educational psychology course. At least once during the online discussion, each student in the course assumed the role of a starter who initiated a discussion as well as the role of a wrapper who concluded a discussion. Various quantitative measures were recorded to comp...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate teachers’ declarative metacognitive knowledge of higher order thinking skills. This was a qualitative study conducted within the educational setting of in-service science teachers’ courses. The main finding is that teachers’ intuitive (i.e., pre-instructional) knowledge of metacognition of thinking skills is unsatisfactory for the purpose of t...

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...

<p>Critical thinking skills are the active process by someone analyzing information, questioning truth remembering old memories so that a conclusion is obtained. Critical influenced student readiness factors in learning including planning, monitoring and evaluation. Therefore, students with low critical need to improve planning systematic through empowerment of metacognitive skills. This ...

This study aims at identifying the effect of pre-service teachers’ 21st century learner skills and metacognitive awareness on their early teacher identity. Employing a correlational design, collected data from 523 teachers studying AfyonKocatepe University, Turkey, in 2020-2021 academic year. The instruments used collection process were “21st Century Learner Skills Use Scale”, “Metacognitive Aw...