@article{2019,title={INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS AND THE READING HABITS OF THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS},abstractNode={Metacognitive awareness is a structure that allows the individual to be aware of what he/she knows or do not know, to be aware of his/her own learning strategy and to plan, monitor and evaluate his/her own learning, to control his/her mental processes in accessing information, and to take responsibility of learning. The habit of reading, which is considered as a multidimensional cognitive activity, can reveal the developmental status of societies. In a study conducted by UNESCO, the rates of reading books of countries were examined and our country was in the same category as the African countries in 86th place. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the reading habits of students and their metacognitive awareness. The population of the study consisted of the students of Gaziantep University Faculty of Education, and the sample consisted of 208 pre - service teachers from Gaziantep University Nizip Faculty of Education. In order to determine the metacognitive awareness of the prospective teachers the validity and reliability study of the Turkish version was used. In the study, the relationship between reading habits and metacognitive awareness was determined by correlation analysis. Then regression analysis was conducted to determine if the reading habit predicts the metacognitive awareness. According to the findings of the study, it was revealed that attitude score for reading books significantly predicted the level of metacognitive awareness and there was a moderate positive relationship between metacognitive awareness and attitudes towards reading. Accordingly, it may be important to increase the activities of students to develop positive attitudes towards reading and thus to develop metacognitive awareness.},author={Bülent DÖŞ-Burak ŞAHİN - Elif HIZAL},year={2019},journal={Turkish Studies-Educational Sciences}}