College students’ Use of Metacognitive Strategies in the Process of Answering Banked Cloze Questions

Abstract

In English reading, Banked Cloze has always been the key and difficult point in the examination. Students generally report that Banked Cloze is quite difficult to handle. The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationship between reading comprehension and metacognitive strategies in Banked Cloze, and to understand how college students use metacognitive strategies in Banked Cloze test, so as to find effective methods to help college students’ English reading in their CET.