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The aim of this paper is to provide a picture of the metacognitive awareness and reading- strategy use of Egyptian second grade preparatory students who are learning English as a foreign language (EFL). A total of 30 students who responded to a 30-item survey of reading strategies (SORS), which aims to assess the metacognitive awareness of reading strategies and reveal the type of reading strategies respondents report using when reading academic materials in English. The strategies were classified into 3 categories: global, problem-solving, and support. The results of the study reveal that on the whole there is a fairly high awareness of all the strategies included in the survey, with a preference among the respondents for global strategies, followed by support strategies and problem solving strategics. Moreover, it is found that females report significantly higher frequency of-metacognitive awareness of reading strategies than males while reading academic materials.
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