شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

Metacognitive reading strategies and extensive attention to reading have a great deal contributed to better learners' comprehension of the texts they handle upon, in a way that the more aware learners are of reading strategies, better their comprehension will be. The purpose of this study, finding out Iraqi EFL preparatory school students' awareness level of metacognitive reading strategies. Accordingly, a sample of (385) students from different Iraqi preparatory schools in Baghdad city, directorate of education Al- Rusafa 2nd, for the academic year 2022-2023. The instrument is used to achieve the aim of this study: a questionnaire of metacognitive reading strategy awareness. The finding reveals that the students have an insufficient level of metacognitive reading strategy awareness. (Published abstract)