Metacognitive awareness and language achievement test performance among Iranian undergraduate ESP students
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Metacognitive awareness plays a fundamental role in enabling learners to employ appropriate strategies in problem solving, and monitoring their learning process in different conditions. The current study aims at finding the metacognitive awareness level of undergraduate students in ESP. To this end, 33 undergraduate students in ESP took part in the study. They were asked to respond to the given statements provided in the inventory. The data were gathered and analyzed. The results indicated that the participants' metacognitive awareness is high. Moreover, the participants obtained high mean scores on the two components of metacognitive awareness. The findings can be useful to learners to become familiar with their level of metacognitive awareness and to use them properly in different conditions. The findings can also be conducive to instructors and material developers to deliver materials in such a way that best increases learners' metacognitive awareness and involvement in learning process.
Institution: Islamic Azad University Kazeron
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414044226