Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background of the Research
Reading plays a crucial role among the five language skills(listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating), and it is also one of the approaches for English learners to learn language. One of the basic requirements for college students is able to read some general English journals, English newspapers, English novels and articles. Reading is a comprehensive skill which requires readers of owning a great deal of vocabulary and grammar knowledge. Besides, reading takes a great proportion among various English proficiency tests and it is the important channel to acquire knowledge. According to 2017 version of College English Curriculum Requirements, the basic requirement for reading includes that “students are expected to be able to employ effective reading strategies while reading.” For teachers, it is necessary to teach students how to use strategies to read. Stern(1983) holds that learning strategies are different from learning techniques. Learning strategy is the general characteristics of learning method. Therefore, it means that learning strategies are able to be acquired by training. Meta-cognition emerged in the 70’s of last century and has always been one of the focuses of psychological and Educational research. Flavell(1976) firstly mentioned the term of meta-memory, which refers to an individual’s ability to monitor the input, storage, search and retrieval of the contents of his own memory. Flavell defined meta-cognition as follows: “In any kind of cognitive transaction with the human or non-human environment, a variety of information processing activities may go on. Meta-cognition refers, among other things, to the active monitoring and consequent regulation and orchestration of these processes in relation to cognitive objects or data on which they bear, usually in service of some concrete goal or objective”(Flavell,1976: 232). Meta-cognition consists of two parts: meta-cognitive knowledge and meta-cognitive strategies.
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1.2 Purpose of the Research
Based on the previous studies on meta-cognitive strategies, this paper attempts to investigate the non-English majors’ m，英语论文范文，英语论文范文 |
