Research on Application of Metacognitive Strategies to Business English Reading Teaching

DOI

10.2991/icmesd-18.2018.91How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Metacognitive strategies, Business English teaching, Business English reading competence.

Abstract

This paper investigated whether metacognitive strategy training could improve the students’ awareness of metacognitive strategy use and their business English reading competence. In order to find the result, the author launched an experimental research by employing O’Mally & Chamot’s metacognitive strategy teaching method??"CALLA (Cognitive Academic Language Approach) into business English reading teaching. The questionnaire about the students’ awareness of metacognitive strategy use and business English reading test were conducted before and after the experiment; an interview was also made after the experiment. Then, data were collected and analyzed. The results of the study shows that metacognitive strategy training has a positive effect on developing students’ own individualized strategy systems and improve their business English reading efficiency.

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© 2018, 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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BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Development (ICMESD 2018)
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