AbstractThis study aims to highlight the key roles played by metacognitive strategies training in the development of listening comprehension skill and self-regulation strategies of EFL learners. The participants of this study (N = 60) were female Iranian students assigned to two groups of experimental and control in Kish English Language Institute. Learners in the experimental group recei...

Research shows that acquisition of writing skills can be supported by metacognitive strategy training. However, research on incorporating guidance for collaborative is scarce. The current study explores the potential effectiveness prompts, is, a form guidance, into academic English skills. This involves four instructional methods, combined with embedded (COLL+META), training without (META), (CO...

This single subject study concerned how a 13 year-old student with specific learning disabilities used metacognition as he composed discourse in response to a writing prompt. Ethnographic procedures were used to collect and analyze data. The participant engaged in a think aloud procedure as he composed a paper about a famous historical figure. His transcribed verbalizations were analyzed by use...

Previous work has demonstrated that interventions like 1) giving in-the-moment performance feedback and 2) providing a strategy rule can improve children’s metacognitive learning. However, there is little evidence to suggest that this learning transfers to a novel task. We trained 5-year-olds’ metacognitive control in a task requiring participants to select the easier of two games to acquire th...

This study investigated the quality of metacognition at its inter-individual level, i.e., socially-shared metacognition, across two collaborative writing tasks of different difficulty levels among a cohort of Iranian EFL learners.  Moreover, it examined the correlation between the individual and the social modes of metacognition in writing.  The analysis of think-aloud protocols of a number of ...

Student teachers need to have writing skills support their academic activities and professional lives. Mastery of is interrelated the use strategies; metacognitive strategies, cognitive strategies social strategies. The purpose this study was describe students' specifically in thesis. This a quantitative with survey design. sample involved 88 students. instrument questionnaire Likert scale. res...