“…A good deal of research has examined the relationship between students' metacognition and their attainment of academic goals, and has shown clearly that greater use of metacognitive skills is associated with an improved awareness of what students are studying. It has also been linked with greater attainment of their learning goals, improved reading comprehension, and enhanced independent learning skills (Al-Harthy, Was and Hassan, 2015;Coutinho, 2007;Jaleel and Premachandran, 2016;Rahman and Hussan, 2017;López-Vargas Ibáñez-Ibáñez and Racines-Prada, 2017;Meniado, 2016;Moir, Boyle and Woolfson, 2020;Shubber, Udin and Minghat, 2015;Sutiyatno and Sukarno, 2019;Zhao, 2014). As far back as 1983, Brown et al (1983) had demonstrated significantly that several metacognitive strategies, including self-regulation, planning, evaluating, and monitoring, are relevant to reading comprehension.…”