Effect of CALLA metacognitive strategy instruction on reading comprehension and reading awareness

This research aim is to analyze whether metacognitive strategy instruction CALLA affects students’ reading comprehension and reading awareness. This research used a quasi-experimental study in forms of pretest, treatment and post-test. Results showed that the group of experimental students had score significantly higher than the control group students on reading comprehension post-test and also showed significantly higher improvement in metacognitive reading strategy awareness and reading comprehension than control group students. The study recommends CALLA metacognitive strategy instruction to be an effective option for teaching reading comprehension skills at the senior high school level and in the contexts, which share similar characteristics.

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF METACOGNITIVE STRATEGY TRAINING TO ENHANCE EFL STUDENTS ORAL PRESENTATION SKILL

Doing oral presentation has been a common classroom activity for university students including EFL students for almost any subject they are taking, but the writer found that students still had problems with their presentation and could not do their presentation effectively. In order to do the task successfully, students need metacognitive skill because they need to think about the task, plan for the task, monitor the task, and evaluate how well they have done the task. To reach this purpose, teachers need to facilitate the process through strategy instruction, especially metacognitive strategy instruction. By applying metacognitive strategies, students will be more aware of the importance of their active role in their learning. This paper is intended to present metacognitive strategy instruction adopting Oxford’ metacognitive strategies to enhance EFL students’ oral presentation skill in their speaking class and the students’ responses toward the strategy instruction. Based on the analysis of the students’ performance, video recording, teacher evaluation, self evaluation, peer evaluation, and written reflection, they have done their oral presentation better, and they had positive responses toward metacognitive instruction and became more aware of themselves as learners who are responsible for their success. Keywords: EFL students, Oral presentation skill, metacognitive strategy training

THE EFFECT OF METACOGNITIVE STRATEGY INSTRUCTION ON FIELD-INDEPENDENT AND FIELD-DEPENDENT EFL LEARNERS’ WRITING SKILL

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji pengaruh pengajaran strategi belajar metakognitif terhadap kemampuan menulis mahasiswa Bahasa Inggris dengan gaya belajar bebas dan gaya belajar menggantung. Untuk itu rancangan penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kuasi-eksperimen. Sejumlah 25 mahasiswa (kelompok kendali) dan 22 mahasiswa (kelompok eksperimen) dipilih sebagai sampel. Intervensi yang diberikan pada kelompok eksperimen adalah pengajaran strategi belajar metakognitif. Berdasarkan kalkulasi statistik independent sample t-test, intervensi tersebut tidak mempengaruhi kemampuan menulis mahasiswa di kelompok eksperimen. baik mahasiswa dengan gaya belajar bebas maupun gaya belajar menggantung tidak memiliki perbedaan nilai rata-rata yang signifikan pada nilai test menulis mereka.