@article{Muñoz-Muñoz_Ocaña de Castro_2017, title={The Use of Metacognitive Strategies to Enhance Reading Comprehension Skills}, url={https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/linguistica_hispanica/article/view/5865}, DOI={10.19053/0121053X.n29.2017.5865}, abstractNote={<div>This article presents the outcome of a research project whose main objective was</div> <div>to foster the implementation of metacognitive strategies, designed to enhance reading</div> <div>comprehension skills, especially regarding the inferential level of reading in expository texts.</div> <div>The pedagogical intervention for this research is supported in three fundamental moments:</div> <div>before, during and after reading. A pre-experimental methodology, with a pre test/post test design, and without a control group, was implemented for this project. According to a comparison of average scores using the Students ́ t-Test for independent samples, a 0,05 level of significance was found, proving that the use of metacognitive strategies had a positive influence in the reading process of high school students of the eighth grade in two public educational institutions from the municipalities of Nuevo Colón and Samacá</div> <div>(Boyacá, Colombia).</div>}, number={29}, journal={Cuadernos de Lingüística Hispánica}, author={Muñoz-Muñoz, Ángela Elvinia and Ocaña de Castro, Myriam}, year={2017}, month={Feb.}, pages={223–244} }