The effectiveness of metacognitive strategies in facilitating Taiwanese university learners in EFL reading comprehension

The purpose of this study is to explore how metacognitive strategies can be implemented most effectively in Taiwanese universities, to improve EFL students' reading comprehension.;One hundred forty three first-year students at the Lung Hwa University were recruited as subjects in the study. A 2-by-2 ANCOVA measure was employed to assess whether metacognitive strategy training can bring significant outcomes on the EFL reading comprehension.;The results showed that the experimental group outperformed the control group. The metacognitive strategies that were engaged to facilitate Taiwanese university learners' EFL reading comprehension revealed a strong achievement level effect on the reading comprehension outcomes.