The metacognitive awareness of reading strategies in Thai EFL learners

Name: Kitipat Chutichaiwirath

keyword: Metacognitive awareness of reading strategies

LCSH: English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Case studies

; Think-aloud

LCSH: Reading (Higher education) -- Thailand -- Case studies

; Thai EFL learners

Abstract: This paper explores the metacognitive awareness of reading strategies and the use of reading strategies among Thai EFL learners. Fifteen female university students doing their fourth-year undergraduate study in an English major at the faculty of education participated in this study. The current study used a mixed-methods approach. To collect the quantitative data, the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI) was used to investigate the participants’ metacognitive awareness involved in reading. Also, to insightfully assess and analyze the participants’ reading strategies while they were reading the academic texts, a think-aloud protocol was used. Four participants who gained high and low scores from the standardized comprehension test were chosen in the think-aloud session. The findings reveal that the participants’ overall use of metacognitive awareness of reading strategies (Global, Problem-solving, and Support reading strategies) was at a high level (Mean = 2.85, S.D. = 0.31). Among 30 individual reading strategies, the most frequently used was underlining and circling (Mean = 3.60, S.D. = 0.74), which falls under the Support Reading Strategy (SUP) category. On the other hand, it can be seen that the least frequently used reading strategy was asking self-questions (Mean = 1.93, S.D. = 0.70), which is also under the category of SUP strategies. When considering the appropriate and effective use of metacognitive reading strategies in the think aloud protocol by the participants in successful reading comprehension, it was discovered that using background knowledge, previewing text, reading slowly and carefully, pausing to reflect on reading, taking notes while reading, and summarizing were frequently used

Thammasat University. Thammasat University Library

Address: BANGKOK

Email: preserv@tu.ac.th

Name: Pragasit Sitthitikul

Role: advisor

Created: 2016

Modified: 2564-04-26

Issued: 2021-04-26

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DOI: 10.14457/TU.the.2016.971

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DegreeName: Master of Arts

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: English Language Teaching

Grantor: Thammasat University

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