Hamide Ghasemi
Mina Rastegar

The purpose of present study was to investigate differences in the reported use of reading strategies (global, problem solving, and support) among internalisers and externalisers. Participants were eightyfour first and second year junior EFL students. Results of the study revealed, first, that differences between internaliser and externaliser participants in terms of overall metacognitive and support strategies were significant. Second, no significant differences were found between these two groups in global and problem solving strategies.

metacognitive awareness of reading strategies, global strategies, problem solving strategies, support strategies, internalisers, externalisers