This book presents a study that explored the
metacognitive reading strategies used by Arabic
native speakers when reading in Arabic and English.
The study aimed at finding out 1)the strategies that
Arabic native speakers report using in English and
Arabic,2)the strategies they actually use in reading
the two languages, and 3)the conditions under which
the use of these strategies vary across the two
languages. The participants metacognitive reading
strategies was assessed by using the Survey of
Reading Strategies(SORS) (Mokhtari & Sheorey, 2002)
while their actual strategies use was...