STUDENTS’ METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES AWARENESS AND SPEAKING ABILITY: A CORRELATIONAL STUDY

Abstract

The primary aim and the focus of this study were to investigate students’ metacoginitive strategies awareness and their relationship with speaking ability. The participants were 31 Indonesian junior college students who have taken speaking course. The study gained that students’ metacognitive strategies awareness was categorized on good awareness with 77.9 % of use. Following that, by means of correlational research design, this study also found that there is a positive correlation between the variables. In addition, the correlation was categorized in strong association.