A study on college students´ awareness of learning strategy in cloze test with SPSS

In the last decades, many studies have been conducted on learning strategy, but seldom focus on learning strategy awareness. In fact, a good understanding of strategies can discover problems in learning, thus effective strategy use could be put forward to improve learning efficiency. The main concern of this study is to investigate whether strategy awareness differences lie between high group and low group and between genders. A questionnaire is used to measure the subjects´ cognitive and metacognitive strategy awareness in taking a multiple cloze test. All the raw data are analyzed by using the SPSS, Version 12.0. The results indicate that high group employs more metacognitive and cognitive strategies than low group does. Males employ more planning strategy, while female participants are superior to males in terms of monitoring and evaluating strategies.