Effectiveness of Metacognitive Strategies through Reading Comprehension of Tertiary Level Leaner’s of English

Abstract

Reading is the basic foundation on which academic skills of an individual are built. Reading is a fundamental skill to acquire information. To enhance reading ability effectively, it is quite signification to understand the reading process. Reading is an individual process that takes place inside readers mind in order to monitor, analyze, discuss and modify a classroom learning conditions. Reading is not only between reader and the text; instead reading is a more complex activity that includes different skills. Reading is a constructive process that uses the students Metacognitive strategies to build understanding of the text. Metacognitive strategies are sequential process that one uses to control cognitive activities and ensure a cognitive goal.

            Flavell (1976) defines Metacognitive as one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes. Baird (1990) uses ideas to provide formulation, “ Metacognition refers to the knowledge, awareness and control of one’s own learning”. Metacognitive development is described as a development in one’s Metacognitive abilities i.e. the move to grater knowledge, awareness and control of one’s learning. One of the most vital skills that a person has to acquire in his life is reading. Reading can be seen as an interactive process between a reader and a text. In this reader interacts dynamically with the text to elicit, the meaning and various kinds of knowledge is being used. Readers have to use a flexible repertoire of strategies and cues to comprehend text and to solve problems with unfamiliar structure and vocabulary.