مجلة دراسات الإنسان و المجتمع

The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of awareness of metacognitive reading strategies of the Libyan Waha Oil Company's employees who were doing English courses as part of their on-job training in Spring 2018. A total of 45 employees of three different proficiency groups in KET, PET & FCE responded to a 21 item questionnaire of reading strategies. The strategies were classified into 4 categories: planning & evaluation, directed attention, support, and problem- solving . The findings showed that the three groups reported using the 4 categories of strategies at different frequency levels. The FCE group were found to use the 4 categories of reading strategies at a high frequency level. The PET & KET groups were reported using the 4 categories of strategies at a medium frequency level. Both the relationship between the awareness of reading strategies and the main effect for learners' proficiency were established across the three groups. The FCE upper-intermediate group outperformed the PET intermediate group and the KET pre-intermediate in the overall use of the 4categories of reading strategies. According to the PET & KET groups, planning & evaluation strategies were found to be the least often used. Directed attention and Support strategies tended to be the least often used among the FCE groups. This suggests that the higher their awareness of reading strategies, the better their reading ability/proficiency was, according to the two data collection tools used in this study (questionnaire and reading test).