Abstract:From the perspective of the importance of metacognitive strategies, this paper briefly discusses the role of metacognitive strategies theory in College Students' English Reading on the results of relevant learning strategies at home and abroad. Firstly, the paper briefly describes the English reading comprehension and metacognitive strategies. Secondly, the writer introduces three strategies of metacognitive strategies. Lastly, it takes one example to discuss the application of meta-cognitive Strategy in the English Reading Comprehension to help learners to improve their reading efficiency.

Key words: English reading; metacognitive strategy; applications

CONTENTS

Abstract

中文摘要

1. Introduction .1

2. Literature Review ..1

2.1 Definition of Reading Comprehension

2.2 Definition and Classification of Metacognitive Strategies 

  2.3 Research on Reading Comprehension and Metacognitive Strategies at Home and Abroad

3. Metacognitive Strategies in Reading Comprehension.5

3.1 Planning

  3.2 Process monitoring

    3.2.1 Direction Monitoring

    3.2.2 Process Monitoring 

    3.2.3 Method Monitoring 

3.3 Self –Evaluation

4. Application of Metacognitive Strategies in Reading Comprehension ..8

  4.1 Planning a Reading Task 

  4.2 Monitoring Reading Process

  4.3 Self-evaluating Reading Performance 

5. Conclusion .11

Bibliography 13

Appendix I .14