A Pilot Study on Metacognitive Strategies Used by Non-English Majors in Reading Comprehension
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trade from Zhixing College of Hubei University through questionnaire. Results of the study revealed that overall frequency of using
metacognitive strategies by non-English majors was not high; among the four broad categories of metacognitive strategies, what students
used the most frequently was the category of selective attention while the planning category ranked the least. Next, the females and males
showed no signifi cant diff erence in the use of metacognitive strategies in reading comprehension, although the female use metacognitive
strategies a little more frequently than their counterpart male. Finally, the study also showed a negative relationship between the frequency
of using overall metacognitive strategies and the profi ciency of reading comprehension, the high profi ciency group uses the strategy less
than the low profi ciency group.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18686/mcs.v5i1.1641
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