The Effect of Awareness Raising Through Metacognitive Strategy-based Instruction on ESP Learners’ Reading Comprehension
محورهای موضوعی : English Language Teaching (ELT)سعیده آهنگری 1 , فاطمه محسنی 2
1 - دپارتمان انگلیسی- شعبه تبریز- دانشگاه آزاد تبریز- تبریز- ایران
2 - Department of English, Buinzahra Branch, Islamic Azad University, Buinzahra, Iran
کلید واژه: reading comprehension, Planning, reading strategy, awareness-raising, Metacognitive, self-monitoring,
چکیده مقاله :
The present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of meta-cognitive strategy (planning, self-monitoring) awareness raising instruction on reading comprehension of Iranian ESP learners. Participants of three groups each comprising of 21 Iranian male students studying “Civil Engineering” in “Islamic Azad University of Buin Zahra” were selected and assigned to three groups: two experimental groups (group A, and B) and one control group (group C). To meet the aim of the study, two reading comprehension tests were administered to the participants in three groups. In the first phase, a reading comprehension was administered as a pre-test. In the second phase, two experimental groups received five sessions of instruction on planning and self-monitoring awareness raising strategies on the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) and control group received no training. In the third phase, after completion of the instruction, a reading comprehension test as a post-test was administered to the groups. The findings indicated that the participants in two experimental groups outperformed the control group in the post-test of reading comprehension. It is concluded that the instruction of planning and self-monitoring metacognitive strategies as learning aids can lead to the improvement of students’ reading comprehension performance.
مطالعه حاضر به بررسی تاثیر بالابردن میزان آگاهی از طریق آموزش راهکارهای فراشناختی (طرح ریزی کردن و خود مدیریت کردن) بر روی مهارت خواندن فراگیران ایرانی انگلیسی برای اهداف خاص پرداخت. شرکت کنندگان این تحقیق که دانشجویان مهندسی عمران دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی بویین زهرا بودند به دو گروه آزمایشی و یک گروه کنترل تقسیم شدند. هر یک از گروه ها شامل 21 دانشجو بود. در مرحله اول یک آزمون مهارت خواندن به عنوان پیش آزمون به هر سه گروه داده شد. در مرحله دوم دانشجویان در دو گروه آزمایشی در پنج جلسه از آموزش طرح ریزی کردن و خود مدیریت کردن براساس روش CALLAبهره مند شدند در صورتیکه دانشجویان در گروه کنترل آموزشی ندیدند. در مرحله سوم پس از کامل شدن دوره آموزش یک آزمون مهارت خواندن به عنوان پس آزمون به آنها داده شد. براساس تحلیل داده ها دانشجویان در دو گروه آموزشی عملکرد بهتری نسبت به دانشجویان در گروه کنترل از خود نشان دادند. بنابراین نتیجه گیری می شود که آموزش راهکارهای فراشناختی (طرح ریزی کردن و خود مدیریت کردن) تاثیر و نقش بسزایی در مهارت خواندن دانشجویان داشت.
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