The present study examined the impact of visualization and graphic organizers as pre-listening strategies on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement and their listening comprehension. To do so, this study was carried out in three listening classes at Islamic Azad University of Mashhad. The participants included 80 junior EFL university stude...

Audio technology such as podcasting may be an efficient tool to improve oral proficiency by exposing learners to more authentic input (e.g., listening to podcasts) and by giving them opportunities to produce substantially more output (e.g., creating podcasts). Combined with self-evaluation activities, voice recording technology can also contribute to metacognitive awareness, i.e., “the ability ...

This research aimed to reveal students' internal and external difficulties in dealing with listening comprehension tests. The was conducted the English Language Education Department at a private university Batam. total of participants 32 students, including second third-year students. data were analysed through mix-method, using three different instruments: questionnaire, test an interview coll...

background: cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies are identified as important solutions for improving academic achievement. this study aimed toevaluate the effect of teaching cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies on academic achievement among nursing students. methods: this study was an experimental with pretest and posttest and follow-updesign.  the study population include...

the present study adopts the perspective that metacognitive strategy instruction is bound to occur inside the classroom especially on oral tasks. accordingly, the researchers investigated whether metacognitive strategy instruction prior to oral tasks was more successful than conventional ways in improving efl learners’ oral proficiency. to this end, 56 participants studying in a language school...

Today, the WWW is a very prominent resource of healthrelated information, both, for medical experts and laypersons (e.g. Fox, 2003). The latter often retrieve these information to make an informed decision. However, one cannot expect laypersons to deal with these information effectively offhand. We rather assume that to succeed, laypersons need to actively guide their search process on a metaco...