METACOGNITION IN COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) Masrurin

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Metacognition Studies in language learning

EFL Learners

EFL Teachers

• implementation of metacognition in language learning process

• strategy teaching to lead learners make use of metacognition to help them achieving their learning goals

Metacognition

Process of thinking about one’s thinking.

Metacognition is ones’ information and awareness about their own cognition.

(Flavell, 1979)

Definition

Metacognition as cognition about one’s own cognitions.

(Nelson, 1992)

Metacognition

Metacognition

Metacognitive Knowledge

Metacognitive Strategies

• learners’ knowledge about their learning

• learners’ regulation and management of their learning

Metacognitive Knowledge

Flavell in Nelson (1992) Segment of your (a child’s, an adult’s) stored world knowledge that has to do with • people as cognitive creatures and• their various cognitive tasks, goals,

actions, and experiences.

It consists of knowledge or beliefs about what factors or variables act and interact in what ways to affect the development and the outcome of cognitive enterprises.

Metacognitive Knowledge

Task Variable

Person Variable

Strategy Variable

the information available to someone during the cognitive enterprise

everything that one could believe about the nature of oneself and other people as cognitive processors.

strategies are likely to be effective in achieving what sub goals and goals in what sorts of cognitive tasks.

Most metacognitive knowledge actually concerns combinations among two or three of these here types of variables.

Metacognitive Strategies• thinking about the learning process • planning for learning • monitoring the learning task • evaluating how well one has learned

O’Malley and Chamot (1990)

Seven major groups of self management

1. Planning2. Directed attention3. Selective attention4. Self-management5. Self-monitoring6. Problem identification7. Self-evaluation

Metacognitive strategies are also described as mental operations used by learners in the self-management of their learning.

CALLComputer-Assisted Language Learning

The area of applied linguistics concerns the use of computers for teaching and learning a second or foreign language.Three phases of CALL development:

• engage students in problem-solving activities

• promote integration of skills

• drill and test knowledge of vocabulary and grammatical structure

Behaviouristic

CALL

Communicative

CALLIntegrative

CALL

Metacognition in CALLCALL has provided a lot of advantages for language learning and teaching.

CALL

controlling over their learning

promoting learner independence

developing learning

strategies individualizing learner needs

Metacognition

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