Relationships Between Metacognitive Strategies and Characteristics of Professional Tour Guide Trainees in English for Tourism

Malinee Phaiboonnugulkij

Abstract


The objectives of this study are to investigate and compare the total and individual metacognitive strategies used by professional tour guides in four English for Domestic Tourism lessons, and to explore the relationships between the use of metacognitive strategies in these lessons and characteristics of professional tour guide trainees. A total of eighteen professional tour guide trainees participated in this study and they were classified into groups from their proficiency levels in English, duration in English language study and the level of responsibility of their current jobs. The research instruments were a metacognitive strategy questionnaire, strategy coding scheme, English for Domestic Tourism lessons and English for Domestic speaking test and rating scale. Chi-square, One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), frequency, means, standard deviations and the qualitative content analysis from the questionnaires and coding scheme were used in the data analysis. The results show no significant differences in the use of both the total and individual metacognitive strategies in four lessons. However, there are significant relationships at the.05 level between proficiency level and goal setting and control of linguistic execution strategies. There are also significant relationships between duration of English language study and planning strategies and control of linguistic execution. The substantive insights from a qualitative content analysis show the prominent ways of how characteristics affect the strategy use of particular groups which should be included in both teacher and students’ training on how to make use of these higher order thinking to effectively teach and learn English language.

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Characteristics, Metacognitive Strategies, Speaking Ability, English for Tourism, Tour Guides, English proficiency Levels, English Language Studies, English for Specific Purposes

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.9n.3p.87

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