it is well documented that language learning success or failure is influenced by the affective side of the learner. self-efficacy and anxiety are among the affective factors influencing language learning. this study first explores the relationship between efl learners' self-efficacy in reading comprehension and their reading anxiety. secondly, it explores the relationship between efl learners' ...

This study was designed to investigate the effects of cognitive and metacognitive listening strategies on the listening-related self-efficacy beliefs of EFL students. A total of 146 first-year students, studying at ELT Department of a state university’s educational faculty, took part in the study. The sample of this study is composed of the whole population. Motivational Strategies for Learning...

Does Self-Efficacy Moderate the Contribution of Metacognitive Awareness to Listening Comprehension? Current studies relate issue listening skills several aspects. However, it still requires more empirical finding on contribution self-efficacy and metacognition toward comprehension. This study aimed find effect ability through seek a suitable structural model. The chosen design was ex post facto...

Metacognitive strategies have been investigated as helping tools for students’ reading comprehension, but their use may vary between males and females. Though gender is an essential factor in language learning, few studies highlighted the influence of on metacognitive strategy by Indonesian students. To fill gap, this study during academic from a perspective. A mixed-method was adopted, with op...

objective: this study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of education based of the cognitive, metacognitive, and behavioral model on the reduction of meta-worry beliefs in patients with social anxiety disorder (sad). methods: the research was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design and a control group. the statistical population comprised all patients with sad referr...

Reading comprehension relies on the use of metacognitive strategies. Reciprocal teaching has been found to be an effective comprehension technique to use with students with learning disabilities. This study examined the effectiveness of reciprocal teaching during social studies instruction with several students with learning disabilities in fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade inclusive classrooms....

This study investigated understanding of language ambiguity as a source of individual differences in children’s reading comprehension skill, and the role of peer metalinguistic discussion in fostering comprehension improvement. Twenty-four 7to 9-year-old children worked in pairs to discuss and resolve ambiguities in joking riddles. Their reading comprehension increased significantly more than a...

This paper presents a study of comprehension monitoring of Chinese lower intermediate EFL (English as a foreign language) learners in first language (L1) and foreign language (FL) reading. It investigates the outcome of comprehension monitoring in L1 and FL reading, as well as the separate contributions of L1 reading proficiency and FL comprehension monitoring to FL reading proficiency. 126 stu...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that individuals with schizophrenia exhibit higher levels of unhelpful metacognitive beliefs than healthy controls, but no studies have explored metacognitive beliefs in early psychosis. AIMS We examined i) differences in levels of unhelpful metacognitive beliefs between psychosis spectrum disorders, and healthy controls, and ii) to what extent demograph...