Metacognitive Strategy Training For Vocabulary Learning

Having been studied for over twenty years, metacognition is most broadly defined as awareness and control of one's learning and used to refer to individuals knowledge about their own cognitive processes as well as their abilities to control these processes by organizing, monitoring, and modifying them as a function of learning outcomes and feedback.Vocabulary knowledge is known to play a key role in the individuals' proficiency in both first and second language. Vocabulary size was shown to be the best predictor of reading comprehension in L1 and L2. Vocabulary learning strategies refer to both general approaches and specific actions or techniques used by a learner to make the vocabulary learning easier.The present study focuses on explicit metacognitive strategy instruction and its impact on lexical knowledge improvement of the students in a technical school. It aims to improve the students' metacognitive knowledge and facilitate their English vocabulary learning.Results of the research show that1) The quantitative data showed that the experimental group made big and significant progress after they received the training. The explicit metacognitive strategies instruction has positive impact on the lexical knowledge development of the students. The metacognitive strategy training have contributed to the improvement of the students' vocabulary learning.2) The metacognitive strategies instruction activates the students' motivation. The students now show more interest in vocabulary learning and have the confidence that they can do better than before. The training improves the students' strategy awareness. The students are more familiar with various vocabulary learning strategies. By...