A Study on College Teachers' and Students' Metacognition in English Reading

摘要

By adopting quantitative and qualitative method, the study, intends to investigate the college teachers' and students' metacognitve knowledge and strategy in English reading. Results of the study indicated that the level of both the students' and their teachers' metacognitve knowledge is very low, both employ selecting attention category most frequently while the planning and evaluating categories are the least used strategies. The study aims to enhance teachers' awareness of metacognition and to improve the level of students' metacognitive knowledge and reading abilities.