scholarly journals Multilingualism and Metacognitive Processing

2019 ◽  
pp. 355-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bright ◽  
Julia Ouzia ◽  
Roberto Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Metacognitive Processing

scholarly journals A Mixed-Method Case Study: Is there Only the Pictorial Input that Affects Word Retention?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Watcharee Paisart ◽  
Watjana Suriyatham
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
T Test ◽  
Recall Protocol ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Word Retention ◽  
Metacognitive Processing ◽  
Thai University

This mixed-method case study was conducted to probe how a set of pictures had an influence on a group of EFL university students’ retention of English words. Seven Thai university participants, enrolling in the course of English for Service Industry, were voluntarily engaged in the study. They took a pretest of 45 words they learned in class through the use of pictorial input for one semester, and right after the posttest, they recalled how they could remember the words in an individually stimulated recall protocol session. The result of T-test from Wilcoxon sign-ranked test showed that the pretest and posttest scores were significantly different at the 0.05 level. Interestingly, the qualitative accounts from the stimulated recall revealed that apart from the pictorial input the participants learned in class, they also employed other strategies to help them memorize the vocabulary. The findings from the study; therefore, shed lights on cognitive-metacognitive processing and strategies an individual EFL learner adopted, and most importantly, on how teachers can encourage their learners to orchestrate them and make the best use of pictures in order to learn ESP vocabulary effectively.

scholarly journals Judgments of agency are affected by sensory noise without recruiting metacognitive processing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marika Constant ◽  
Roy Salomon ◽  
Elisa Filevich
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Sense Of Control ◽  
First Order ◽  
Virtual Hand ◽  
Internal Signal ◽  
Computational Level ◽  
Sensory Noise ◽  
Metacognitive Processing

AbstractJudgments of agency, our sense of control over our actions and the environment, are often assumed to be metacognitive. We examined this assumption at the computational level by comparing the effects of sensory noise on agency judgments to those on confidence judgements, which are widely accepted to be metacognitive in nature. In two tasks, participants rated agency, or confidence in a decision about their agency, over a virtual hand that tracked their movements, either synchronously or with a delay, under high and low noise. We compared the predictions of two computational models to participants’ ratings and found that agency ratings, unlike confidence, were best explained by a model involving no metacognitive noise estimates. We propose that agency judgments reflect first-order measures of the internal signal, without involving metacognitive computations, challenging the assumed link between the two cognitive processes.

scholarly journals Metacognitive processing in non-native language perception and production

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Kartushina ◽  
David Soto ◽  
Clara Martin
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Speech Discrimination ◽  
Production Task ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Language Perception ◽  
Metacognitive Ability ◽  
Metacognitive Processing ◽  
Confidence Ratings

Metacognition is the ability to monitor and control one's own cognition and behaviour. However, the role of metacognition in language remains poorly understood. Here we investigated metacognitive processing in non-native language perception and production, by asking participants to rate, on a trial-by-trial basis, their self-confidence in the accuracy in a phoneme identification and production task. The results revealed metacognitive ability in perception, as participants' confidence judgments aligned with the accuracy in the non-native speech discrimination task. In the production task, self-confidence did not align with a fine-grained precision measure of one’s own production - indexed by Mahalanobis distance to the target-vowel native space. However, self-confidence ratings predicted whether one’s production was within/outside the ‘native’ zone, suggesting that metacognitive monitoring in non-native language production operates on relatively coarse, yet meaningful sound level representations. While overall confidence ratings were similar and highly correlated between the perception and production tasks, there were no associations between the two language domains regarding the primary task performance or metacognitive ability. We discuss the ramifications of these findings for domain-generality/specificity in metacognitive processing in non-native language, and the unsettled debate on the relationship between language perception and production. Finally, we note future research directions that emerge from the present work.

scholarly journals A bilingual disadvantage in metacognitive processing

Cognition ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 119-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Folke ◽  
Julia Ouzia ◽  
Peter Bright ◽  
Benedetto De Martino ◽  
Roberto Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Metacognitive Processing
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