The Effects of direct and integrated instruction of cognitive and metacognitive and reading strategies at awareness-raising level on reading proficiency and strategy use

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Çiçekoğlu, Deniz

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This study intends to find out the possible effects of cognitive and metacognitive reading strategy instruction at awareness-raising level on reading proficiency and strategy use. In the study both qualitative and quantitative data were utilized. The relevant data were obtained by means of think-aloud protocols, semi-structured interviews, the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning اSILL- (Oxford, 1990), learning diaries and the reading scores of students on a proficiency exam (COPE). A total of 24 students studying at Bilkent University School of English Language were involved in the study. The scores of the students who received the strategy instruction on the reading paper of COPE, and the scores of the students who were not subject to any strategy instruction were used to run a t-test so as to reveal whether there was a significant difference between these two sets of scores. The data that came from the think-aloud protocols, semi-structured interviews and learning diaries were analyzed so as to trace the type of strategies employed by the students and the frequency with which they were employed. The results did not indicate a statistically significant difference. It was also discovered that all students involved in the study had a tendency to use more cognitive strategies than metacognitive ones. The cognitive strategies were more varied with the group of students who received the strategy instruction.

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Reading, Reading strategies, Cognitive and metacognitive strategies, Strategy instruction, Reading strategy instruction, Awareness- raising, Reading proficiency

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1218197/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13427

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D. Çiçekoğlu, “The Effects of direct and integrated instruction of cognitive and metacognitive and reading strategies at awareness-raising level on reading proficiency and strategy use,” M.A. - Master of Arts, Middle East Technical University, 2003.