Anticipating Students’ Academic Achievements through Metacognitive Awareness and Learning Strategies Case Study of 3rd Year Students at the English Department Batna 2 University

Abstract

Researchers from a range of disciplines, over decades, have been looking closely at learning mechanisms. Efficient learning processes require the development of specific abilities that help the one get adapted to the dynamic life change. Research has revealed that intelligence alone is not adequate to anticipate the efficiency of learning; it can rather be predicted by the appropriate selection and application of the learning strategies. Nevertheless, such strategies can be selected depending on the learner’s level of meta-cognitive awareness, which permits the implementation of the suitable learning strategies. Some learners, like in our case study, show great readiness to develop these strategies by their own through time while others require special training of their metacognitive awareness and learning strategies in order not to remain at a suboptimal level of development. The actual research paper targets the investigation of the possible effects of learning strategies and metacognitive awareness on the academic performance of 3^rd year students at the English Department-Batna 2 University. Such a training may contribute to the attainment of high academic achievements for learners. The study results obtained through quantitative and qualitative data have been analyzed and interpreted. Their outcomes show that some learning and meta-cognitive awareness strategies facilitate the attainment of academic success, while other strategies are counter-productive.