Categorization of Meta-Cognition and Its Implication for Competence Building:An Empirical Research in Language Economics  

作　　者：Yin Xue-yan 

机构地区：[1]Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,Guangzhou,China

出　　处：《US-China Education Review(B)》2019年第4期140-149,共10页美中教育评论（B）

摘　　要：Language in nature is a very important human capital endowed by language learners, characterized by economic attributes of “value”,“utility”, and “cost”, manifesting itself in the individual’s language use ability. Since little literature has drawn attention to meta-cognition of business English (BE) learners, through questionnaire-based quantitative research and qualitative categorization, this paper constructs a meta-cognitive system of BE learners with regulatory meta-cognition as the core, and further explores the impact of meta-cognition on BE competence developing. It is found that meta-cognitive knowledge, meta-cognitive experience, and meta-cognitive regulation constitute the meta-cognitive system of BE learners. Meta-cognitive regulation lies in the category center and has a significant impact on BE competence developing. The stronger the meta-cognitive knowledge and regulation are, the stronger BE competence would be. Meta-cognitive experience also plays an important role in BE study, despite its statistically insignificant impact on competence development. Therefore, developing meta-cognition, especially meta-cognitive regulation of language learners is of great statistical significance to improve the return of human capital in BE investment.

关 键 词：business English COMPETENCE meta-cognitive knowledge meta-cognitive experience meta-cognitive regulation 

分 类 号：G4[文化科学—教育学]