The Importance Of Self Monitoring

Self-monitoring

It is considered essential to report about how self - monitoring helped students verify their understanding by identifying comprehension problems and finding appropriate solution during the reading task using the self- assessment protocol. Self- monitoring aims to provide learners with a plan at the moment to read, taking the stages of before, while and after the reading, also during reading they should read the strategies in order to have them in mind and solve the reading task using as many reading strategies they considered useful in their individual processes. Indeed, at the beginning learners did not have a clear idea about the process of reading they just read because it was a task. Learners reported their comprehension

They also reported to have achieved their goals nonetheless their objectives at the beginning were not focused on the topic of research, throughout the process, they become more oriented and guided them to be more realistic and assume new personal or reading challenges.

Category 3. Self-directed reading

Active role in reading

Data obtained from the different instruments showed how learners assumed a different role in their reading process. They started to consider themselves as the engine to improve their reading comprehension and it became a challenge more than just an academic task. Further reading comprehension, they also related it to other issues that could let them improve their general language level. Some excerpts show how learners’ perceptions towards reading changed:

“..y que uno tiene que mejorar esa fue mi idea de hacer todas las lecturas me puse ese propósito pues me gustó mucho y por mí yo seguiría haciendo esas lecturas me gustaría buscar lecturas por mi cuenta. Student 54, Focus group interview, Q5

“...and that you have to improve , that was my idea when doing all the readings ,I set that objective because I like it a lot , I would continue doing these readings. I’d like to look for readings by myself. Translation students 54, Focus group interview,

Translation Student 5, Focus group interview, Q

“seguir aprendiendo cosas nuevas” Student 4, Learners’ journal entry 8

“keep learning new things” Translation Student 4, Learners’ journal entry 8

“ students are very interested in their reading comprehension performance, they keep in mind their results to improve next class. They express their desire to get better scores in their tests” Teacher’ classroom observation , entry 8

Additionally, as part of this active role to become self-directed readers interest was an issue that emerged from qualitative data. During the intervention some students were never interested on the reading activities, but many learners expressed a strong change on their interest towards reading. At the beginning they reported that reading was not very interesting for them because it was difficult to understand but at the end of the process many students reported to have changed their minds. Some excerpts confirm they are more interested in the reading