Maestría en Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera

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Author: search.filters.author.Salazar Tobar, Miryan ConsueloSubject: search.filters.subject.PROCESO DE APRENDIZAJE

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    The effects of metacognitive strategies on reading skills
    (Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Dirección de Posgrado. Maestria en la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera, 2018-07) Salazar Tobar, Miryan Consuelo; Meléndez Escobar, Lorena Monserrath
    The purpose of this research work is determining the effects of metacognitive strategies on the reading skills at A1 English level university students of the Regular Modality at the Language Center in Universidad Técnica de Ambato. These students participated in an experimental study which consisted of giving learners a pre and a post- test. The study was conducted under a quasi-experimental approach designing two working groups; the one denominated control group conformed by 37 students and a second one named experimental group with a number of 35 students, to which a plan of intervention with the use of metacognitive strategies for the development of the reading skills was applied during six weeks. The results obtained through this study evidenced that the participants exposed to an effective reading instruction in the classroom are more motivated to read, take more responsibility and control of their learning as they developed effective strategies and reflect the process and sources that support them to become better readers. Additionally, they are conscious of their process constructing meaning of the text by predicting, scanning, skimming, comparing, contrasting and summarizing. Furthermore, a booklet with different metacognitive instruction strategies was designed to help learners to their ability to discover that metacognitive strategies have effective effects on their reading comprehension improvement. The reading comprehension skills showed a significant improvement with the experimental group. These findings support many other studies which assert that L2 readers who are aware of different metacognitive strategies for use become skillful readers.