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Reshadi-Gajan, Elnaz; Assadi, Nader; Davatgari Asl, Hanieh – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
The present experiment was composed of both qualitative and quantitative methods and aimed at investigating Reading Metacognitive Strategy Awareness (RMSA) and use by the aid of three inventory techniques including a questionnaire, a think-aloud protocol, and a Computerized RMSA System. The computerized system was specifically designed and…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Metacognition, Reciprocal Teaching, Reading Comprehension
Song, Kwangok; Cho, Byeong-Young – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Bilingual adolescents actively participate in literacy practices on the multilingual Internet. However, research has paid little attention to these readers' use of their linguistic knowledge and skills as they choose and learn from multilingual resources on the Internet. With think-aloud protocols, this study examined how Korean-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Immigrants
Adunyarittigun, Dumrong – rEFLections, 2021
This research investigated what reading strategies Thai college EFL students who were identified as nonproficient readers are aware of and what reading strategies they use. Data were gathered from a questionnaire, think-aloud and interviews. The analysis identified 3 broad categories of 16 reading strategies employed by the nonproficient readers:…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Syntax, Protocol Analysis
Tamin, Ilkay Banu; Büyükahiska, Dilek – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
There has been less research available on the integration of metacognitive reading strategies into regular English courses in high schools. Therefore, this action research study was a modest attempt to search the impacts of a reading strategy instruction on students' metacognitive awareness. To this end, a 10-week metacognitive reading strategy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Reading Strategies, High School Students
Lee, Jia-Ying – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2018
This article examines the test-taking strategies of high- and low-scoring Chinese-speaking participants when they answer English multiple-choice reading comprehension questions. Thirty-two participants took a TOEIC reading test, provided think-aloud protocols, and joined a post-task interview. The data come primarily from qualitative analysis and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Wiseness, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Al-Mekhlafi, Abdo Mohammed – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
Reading, a literacy skill, is of great importance to all educational systems. Even in tertiary education, many EFL learners have trouble in reading academic texts in English, as they are often found to be using ineffective reading strategies. A review of relevant literature provides insights into a range of issues relating to the teaching of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Al-Qahtani, Abdulaziz Ali – English Language Teaching, 2020
The current study's objective examines the effectiveness of using a Think-Aloud strategy in improving Saudi EFL learners' reading comprehension and attitudes towards learning. A quantitative study with a quasi-experimental design was implemented through applying two different instruments: Reading Comprehension Skills Test and Attitude Scale…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Teng, Feng – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2019
Purpose: This study aims to examine the writing outcomes of 6th-grade students learning English as a second language. Design/methodology/approach: In all 45 students in a text structure instruction (TSI) group were compared with 45 students in a self-regulated strategy instruction (SRSI) group and 43 students receiving traditional writing…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Metacognition
Poomarin, Wanpen; Adunyarittigun, Dumrong – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2020
Self-perception, which mediates between knowledge and behavior, increasingly plays an important role in the determination of the ability to comprehend and respond to information on the Internet. Teachers need to gain insights about how EFL readers feel about themselves as readers in the Internet-based learning environment. There is a critical need…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), College Students
Akbasli, Sait; Sahin, Mehmet; Gürel, Merve – Online Submission, 2017
In EFL or ESL classrooms there may be those learners labeled as "slow learners" who struggle to concentrate and thus experience failure inevitably. In this study, we deal with dyslexia and inattention (ADHD) because current research suggests behind the slowness of such learners may lie a disorder that can be controlled. We am going to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Dyslexia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Sawuwu, Benny Yodi; Partana, Crys Fajar – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
Some metacognitive mental activities were explored on chemical reading activities as specific judgments called metacognitive judgments. A think-aloud protocol was carried out to fifteen chemistry teacher candidates to express their judgments on chemical reading activities for question posing. Two chemical articles were designed to stimulate these…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Protocol Analysis
Karnal, Adriana Riess; Pereira, Vera Vanmacher – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
This article aims at understanding cognitive strategies which are involved in reading academic texts in English as a L2/FL. Specifically, we focus on reading comprehension when a text is read either using Google translator or not. From this perspective we must consider the reading process in its complexity not only as a decoding process. We follow…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
Arulselvi, M. Evangelin – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2016
The fundamental task of schools is to endow students with strategies, which enable them to elaborate, transform, contrast and critically rebuild knowledge, that develops strategic knowledge. Learning strategy is the specific action to make the students better in learning a second language. Learning Strategy Training is based on problems the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jafarigohar, Manoochehr; Mortazavi, Mahboobeh – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
This study investigated the impact of structuring and problematizing scaffolding mechanisms on 240 Iranian English as a foreign language learners' individual and socially shared metacognition in writing skills. The study also sought to find out whether the learners' proficiency level moderated the effect of the scaffolding mechanisms on…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Alkhaleefah, Tarek A. – Reading Psychology, 2017
Research in strategy use needs to provide comprehensive and detailed qualitative discussion of individual cases and their strategic processing of texts to deepen our understanding of the cognitive and metacognitive processes readers resort to when reading different texts for different purposes. Hence, the present paper aims to provide in-depth and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries