An Action Research On English Metacognitive Strategies Training In Junior Middle School

Generally, the majority of junior school students lack English learning approaches with effectiveness, and are universally featured by deficient autonomous learning competence, ineffective English learning, weak initiative, lacking applying ability of metacognitive learning strategies, and passive English learning. Thus it is urgent that the effective solutions solving this problem need to be found out.Adopting action research, this research conducts the metacognitive strategies training on fifty students under the guidance of learning strategy theory, and explores whether students have the awareness of metacognitive strategies or not by questionnaire survey. Afterwards the strategies training is implemented on defective aspects students have in their understanding of such strategies according to the basic contents of metacognitive strategies. The author developed a 12-week teaching action. In the teaching process, the author had feedbacks of students’ metacognitive strategies.Implications are obtained in this thesis. Firstly, students’ metacognitive awareness should be improved so as to enhance their autonomous learning ability. Secondly, students’ ability of applying self-assessment also should be improved with effective measures. Thirdly, students’ metacognitive strategies should be trained in a planned way with the purposes of improving autonomous learning ability.This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter One presents a general introduction to the whole research including the background, purpose, questions, methods, significance and organization of the research. Chapter Two gives literature review which briefly presents some English metacognitive theories and the previous researches on metacognitive theories home and abroad. Chapter Three relates methodology of this research. Chapter Four presents the whole implementation process of the research plan, which is the main body of this action research. Chapter Five concludes the major findings, implications and limitations of this action research and offers suggestions for further research in the future.