Abstract
This study attempts to measure the effect of the implementation of cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies on reading ability of second year high school students who were bilinguals and monolinguals. In order to address these issues, a quantitative study was conducted on 193 EFL bilingual and monolingual students who were randomly selected from some high schools of Markazi province (Arak and Farahan ) . To meet the mentioned aims, subjects were given English proficiency test, reading comprehension test, cognitive and metacognitive strategies questionnaire By utilizing t-test and ANOVA revealed that there would be statistically significant differences between the above-mentioned subjects as follows:
 1-There wasn't meaningful difference between female bilingual and female monolingual learners in using cognitive and metacognitive strategies .
 2- There was meaningful difference between male bilingual and male monolingual learners in using cognitive and metacognitive strategies .
 3- Gender didn't have significant effect on using cognitive and metacognitive strategies in EFL learners reading comprehension ability.
Highlights
At first there would be brief discussion about the importance of reading strategies especially cognitive and metacognitive strategies, bilingualism and monolingualism have been regarded.1.1.Reading strategiesSince the 1970‟s, there have been a variety of reading strategies advocated by second language learning theorists to teach students to read well .These strategies include skimming, scanning, contextual guessing, skipping unknown or ambiguous words, critical reading, making inferences, etc., all of which are recognized as traditional reading skills
Notable researchers such as Brown, Baker, and Flavell in 1981‟s, have studied several different aspects of the relationship between metacognitive ability and effective reading. Some investigators such as Hosenfeld and Block used think-aloud techniques and text structure recognition, which are regarded as effective methods for metacognitive strategies to identify relations between certain types of reading strategies and successful or unsuccessful foreign/second language reading
3.67 df According to table1,mean scores and standard deviations indicated for two groups of female bilingual and monolingual learners and p=0.893>0.05,So there isn‟t meaningful difference between two groups in using cognitive and metacognitive strategies .In other word, first hypothesis( there is significant difference between female monolingual and bilingual learners in using cognitive and metacognitive strategies) was rejected
Summary
At first there would be brief discussion about the importance of reading strategies especially cognitive and metacognitive strategies , bilingualism and monolingualism have been regarded. Since the 1970‟s, there have been a variety of reading strategies advocated by second language learning theorists to teach students to read well .These strategies include skimming, scanning, contextual guessing, skipping unknown or ambiguous words, critical reading, making inferences, etc., all of which are recognized as traditional reading skills Notable researchers such as Brown, Baker, and Flavell in 1981‟s, have studied several different aspects of the relationship between metacognitive ability and effective reading. Some investigators such as Hosenfeld and Block used think-aloud techniques and text structure recognition, which are regarded as effective methods for metacognitive strategies to identify relations between certain types of reading strategies and successful or unsuccessful foreign/second language reading The results of both their studies showed individual learners‟ greater progress in developing their reading skills after one semester in college (Carrell, 1989). Background knowledge is not the only factor that may explain the individual differences in reading comprehension
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