Volume : I, Issue : VII, December - 2012

Effectiveness of Metacognitive Strategies Through Reading Comprehension of Higher Secondary Students

J. P. Vandhana, Dr. P. Nagaraj

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Reading is a basic skill on which the capacities of intelligence of an individual are built. Metacognition is the act of thinking about thinking. It is asset for everyone to know how they learn the best in three stages of Metacognition. Reading comprehension is what allows the reader to interact with the text in a meaningful way. It’s a idge between passive to active reading. With the development of cognitive psychology, Metacognition has drawn more and more researchers’ attention and provides a new perspective for reading. Among learning strategies, metacognitive strategy is a higher - order executive skill which includes Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating. “Metacognition is a powerful phenomenon that enables students to set goals, plan, solves problems, monitor progress, and evaluate their own thinking effectiveness… It provides the means for adolescents to oversee thinking as it happens, to determine what they know, to appraise what they need to know, and to orchestrate what they should do in a learning situation.” The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of teaching metacognitive strategy and how it influences the comprehension level of Eleventh standard students. Ten students participated in experimental and ten were selected for control group. A pre/post test and comprehension evaluation were utilized to show individual growth and their gained scores where use to compare between both the groups. Results show that students who were taught metacognitive strategies maintained and improved their comprehension.

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J.P.Vandhana, Dr.P.Nagaraj Effectiveness of Metacognitive Strategies Through Reading Comprehension of Higher Secondary Students International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.I, Issue.VII Dec 2012

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