Most learners used an amalgam of all three metacognitive strategy types rather than favoring a single strategy¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The most preferred pattern was combining global, problem-solving, and support strategies together; no participant preferred only global or only support strategies. → Altay 2017

Evidence¶

Altay 2017¶

Altay, İ. F., & Altay, A. (2017). The impact of online reading tasks and reading strategies on EFL learners' reading test scores. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 13(2), 136-152. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1159168

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Descriptive distribution of MARSI-derived strategy use among the experiment group (Table 5). The article reports the "most preferred strategy was amalgam strategy" and that no participants used only global or only support strategies.

"the most preferred strategy was amalgam strategy employed all of the three types of strategies together. However, there were not any participants who only preferred global reading or support reading strategies."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Learners' metacognitive reading strategy type (global, problem-solving, or support) showed no statistically significant effect on reading test scores — related
• Successful readers out-use less successful readers on global and support strategies but not problem-solving strategies — related