METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS AS A PREDICTING VARIABLE OF ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Keywords:
Metacognitive awareness, Achievement in English, Secondary schoolAbstract
Metacognition basically refers to “thinking about thinking”. It is a process of monitoring and controlling one’s own cognition and comprises activities like planning, how to approach a learning task, monitoring comprehension, and evaluating the progress. The present study is aimed at examining the effect of metacognitive awareness on the achievement in English of secondary school students. The sample consisted of 1007 secondary school students from Jammu &Kashmir(Rajouri and Poonch districts). For the assessment of metacognitive awareness of secondary school students, the researchers have adapted the metacognitive awareness inventory by Govil(2003) and standardized it afresh. The reliability of the tool is .84.For the assessment of achievement in English the researchers constructed and standardized an achievement test in English. Findings of the study show that majority of the Secondary School Students of Jammu &Kashmir (Rajouri and Poonch districts)possess very low level of metacognitive awareness. It has been found that there exists significant difference in metacognitive awareness with regard to gender, place of living and type of school and above all metacognitive awareness has come out as a strong predictor of achievement in English.
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