Research on the Use of Metacognitive Strategies of Liberal Arts and Science English Majors

DOI

10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.57How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Metacognitive Strategies, English performance, liberal arts students, science students, English learning

Abstract

By using questionnaire survey and interview method, this paper studies the difference in the use of Metacognitive Strategies by liberal arts students and science students in their English learning, and it also investigates the relationship between the use of Metacognitive Strategies and their performance in TEM-4. It is concluded that both liberal arts students and science students have some metacognitive awareness; however, compared with science students, liberal arts students have much more metacognitive awareness. Besides, the metacognitive strategies have some influence on students’ academic performance, and liberal arts students perform better than science students in English learning.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Guirong Pan
AU  - Yafei Chen
PY  - 2014/05
DA  - 2014/05
TI  - Research on the Use of Metacognitive Strategies of Liberal Arts and Science English Majors
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 223
EP  - 227
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.57
DO  - 10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.57
ID  - Pan2014/05
ER  -