EFFECT OF METACOGNITIVE THINK ALOUD STRATEGY ON READING COMPREHENSION OF STUDENTS AT ELEMENTARY LEVEL IN LAHORE
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This research conducted to explore the metacognitive Think aloud strategy effect on reading comprehension of 7th grade students in the context of Pakistan in a public school of Punjab. The experimental design was adopted in this study which involves the two groups (experimental and control groups) pretest and posttest design. The sample consisted of 64 students of a public girls' high school. Reading comprehension test for data collection was developed by the researcher and Mean, standard deviation and independent t-test were applied for data analysis. Results indicated that those students given the treatment attained higher scores compared to control. Therefore, it is suggested that teachers should be used metacognitive Think aloud strategy for teaching of English on a regular basis in real classroom.
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