Metacognition and reading: Investigating intervention and comprehension of EFL freshmen in Turkey

This study investigated the impact of a metacognitive reading strategy training programme (METARESTRAP) on metacognitive reading strategies and reading comprehension. The quasi-experimental study was conducted with 93 freshmen in the English Language Teaching Department of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University. After pre and post reading tests and a metacognitive reading strategy questionnaire were administered, the six-week METARESTRAP was implemented. The results demonstrated that METARESTRAP significantly fostered reading comprehension skills by providing awareness of metacognition along with declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge about metacognitive reading strategies. It can be concluded that METARESTRAP worked well specifically for matching-type cohesion, coherence, text structure, and global meaning questions along with multiple-choice-type main idea, opinion, detail, and reference questions. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.