The crucial impact of knowing about learners reading strategies to acquire a second language has been widely accepted. Therefore, this paper reports study investigating university students' awareness their when they read English academic texts. As many as 39 first-year students took part the research subject, and answered 30-item questionnaire on strategies. A four-point Likert Scale named SORS...

Metacognitive awareness is considered a crucial factor in reading comprehension. In the present study, quantitative research method was applied using descriptive statistics, T-test, and ANOVA to identify: (1) What second language (L2) Vietnamese students’ metacognitive of strategies? (2) Are there any significant differences between male female L2 students (3) good, medium, poor readers One hun...

Reading is an essential language skill in students’ educational success. However, reports have shown that the most prevalent type of academic difficulties among secondary school students with learning disabilities reading difficulties. Previous studies focused more on interventions to improve comprehension achievement than influence metacognitive strategies achievement. This study, therefore, i...

Metacognitive reading strategies are to facilitate the process of students, give them chance monitor and control process, regulate process. While many typically developing children can gain these cognitive processes, with learning disabilities (LD) have difficulties. They also more limited memory than children. It is an effective method in making it easier for difficulties remember information ...

the cognitive predictors (i.e.,phonological awareness, and rapid automatized naming) underlying reading achievement have not been researched in iranian partial english immersion and non-immersion programs. the present study sought to investigate the relationship between english and persian phonological awareness (pa), rapid autamatized naming (ran) and reading achievementof iranian students in ...

abstract the present study was carried out to investigate the effect of short stories on students’ reading comprehension, vocabulary power and attitude towards the skill and the new instructional materials. the participants of the study were 120 grade 9 students of dilla secondary and preparatory school. in order to gather data for the study, pre- and posttest of reading comprehension, pre and ...

Every time people think about what they said (e.g., Was I tactful?), check something they did (e.g., Did I get the correct change?), or decide whether they have finished a task (e.g., Is this note to my daughter clear enough?), they are engaging in metacognition, or thinking about thinking. Metacognition is very important for reading comprehension. This chapter focuses on understanding the role...

BACKGROUND Various investigations have revealed that the promotion of cognitive and metacognitive strategies can improve reading comprehension and that when readers receive this type of instruction, they can use monitoring processes and regulation strategies adequately. The goal of this work is to analyze the effects of strategic and metacognitive instruction on reading comprehension processes ...