The Effects of Metacognitive Strategy Training on Metacognitive Strategy Use and Language Achievement in Distance Education Setting in China
2015, 11(2), pp.373-396
Publisher : Institute of Distance Education
Research Area : Education
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Metacognitive strategy training plays a significance role in cultivating learners’ self management ability, with the guidance to select appropriate learning strategies, make plans, self-monitor their progress, evaluate their performances and future learning directions. So far, there are lots of studies on metacognitive strategies training, but few of them focus on the empirical study with distance learners as research subjects. Therefore，it is worthwhile drawing extensive attention in distance education setting of China that how to transfer appropriate learning strategy into distance English education and improve the learning effect accordingly. The research therefore aims to make a correlational study on metacognitive strategy training with the improvement of metacognitive strategy use and language achievement in distance education. The research lasts for a whole semester from September to December, 2013, including both quantitative and qualitative study. Major findings in the study are as follows. There is positive correlation between metacognitive strategy training and distance learners’ metacognitive strategy proficiency, which can enhance learners’ use of metacognitive strategy. Furthermore, metacognitive strategy training could contribute to the improvement of learners’ language proficiency.
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