A Study on the Non-English Majors’ Use of Metacognitive Strategies in English Learning

With the deepening of education for all-round development, modern education pays more and more attention to how to make students learn with lesser time and energy but being efficient, which, undoubtedly, involves study of a series of problems concerning learning strategies, and theories related to metacognitive strategies are the most suitable and supporting theories to learning strategies. The research aims to discuss what metacognitive strategies are usually used by non-English major students as well as how these metacognitive strategies function. The research has been carried out in the form of a questionnaire, about 100 non-English majors from Yuncheng University attended the questionnaire. The results show that metacognitive strategies and cognitive strategies always work together. And with the help of these metagnitive strategies, students can find suitable ways to learn the language, they can think and work more independently, making learning plan in a more reasonable way, which help them become the host of learning, and be a successful learner. The author hopes that her research findings may be of some significance in English teaching and learning although there are still some deficiencies and the need of further research.