Metacognitive Strategies In Spoken English Learning Of English Majors

Among all the learning strategies, metacognitive strategy is a higher-order executive skill which involves an ability of consciously using metacognitive knowledge to plan, monitor and evaluate the learning process. Once having a good command of metacognitive strategies, students are able to assess the situation, to plan, to select appropriate strategies, to coordinate them, to monitor or evaluate their effectiveness and to revise the plan when necessary.So far, researches in language learning strategies have pointed to the powerful role of metacognition in language learning, and the potential for greater use of metacognitive strategies. However, little has been reported about metacognitive-strategies-based instruction, especially in oral English, one of the productive skills crucial to students' internalization of linguistic knowledge.It is known to all that English is the most popular language in the world. With the development of the globalization, it becomes more and more important and useful for the communication all over the world. Our country has paid great attention to the education of this language, however, most students still can not speak out freely though they can get high marks in the written exams. Many students especially those in the universities often complain that they can not talk with foreigners naturally although they have learned enough words, phrases and sentences. Some investigations have shown that the main reason for this problem is that the...