noun · academic
metacognition
UK/ˌmetə.kɒɡˈnɪʃən/US/ˌmetə.kɑːɡˈnɪʃən/me·ta·cog·NI·tion
awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes; thinking about how you think
Examples
“Good students use metacognition to check whether their revision methods actually work.”
“Teaching metacognitive strategies can help learners plan and monitor their study.”
“After reflecting on his mistakes, he improved his metacognition and changed his approach to exams.”
Band 8 sentence
“Developing metacognitive strategies allowed me to identify which revision techniques were efficient and which were a waste of time.”
Collocations
- develop metacognitive skills
- metacognitive strategies
- awareness of metacognition
Word family
Common mistakes
a metacognition→metacognition
thinking about thinking→metacognition
Say it for a higher band
5thinking→6critical thinking→7+metacognition
Synonyms
self‑awareness (in learning)
Easily confused
cognition
“Cognition includes processes like perception and memory.”
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