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Publication details [#31236]

Li, Shuyun and Hugh Munby. 1996. Metacognitive strategies in second language academic reading: A qualitative investigation. English for Specific Purposes 15 (3) : 199–216.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L2-acquisition | language proficiency | reading | scientific language, teaching of

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0889-4906 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the metacognitive strategies used by Chinese students of English as a second language (ESL) in their academic reading at Queen's University. The findings picture ESL academic reading as a deliberate, demanding and complex process in which the students were found to draw metacognitive strategies from various sources, whilst sharing the profiles of competent L1 and L2 readers.