The Research about Metacognitive Strategy Training and Its Effects on College Students' Autonomous Learning

Ruan Yali

《IETI Transactions on Social Sciences and Humanities》 1卷 (2018/12) Pp. 55-60

https://doi.org/10.6896/IETITSSH.201812_1.0008

摘要

Autonomous learning is an important part of subjectivity education and still an embodiment of the students' sustainable development ability. Learning strategy is the key to promote autonomous learning while metacognitive strategy is the key to learning strategy, because cultivating students' metacognitive strategy is one of the main approaches of improving students' autonomous learning ability. The study is mainly about an English teaching experiment for 96 sophomores in which metacognitive strategies are applied in English teaching and it lasts for five months. The results show that: (1) students' sense of embodiment and autonomous learning ability are improved a lot through metacognitive strategy training; (2) students' overall English achievement as well as the abilities in basic knowledge of English, reading and writing are improved obviously, especially in improving students' reading ability. Therefore, metacognitive strategy training has a broad prospect of application in foreign language teaching.

關鍵字

Autonomous learning ； Metacognitive strategy ； College Students ； foreign language teaching