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European Journal of Foreign Language Teaching ISSN: 2537 - 1754 ISSN-L: 2537 - 1754 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 2 │ Issue 2 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.569538 THE PREDICTIVE DEGREE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ LEVELS OF METACOGNITION AND NEED FOR COGNITION ON THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Uğur Akpuri PhD, School of Foreign Languages Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey Abstract: The purpose of this study is to find out the predictive degree of university students levels of need for cognition and metacognition on their academic achievement. A total of 5 university students formed the study group. To collect the data of the study, The Metacognition Awareness Inventory MAI and The Need for Cognition Scale NFCS were used to measure students metacognitive awareness and their tendency to think and enjoy thinking. For the students academic performance, the average points GPA that they got during the term were taken into consideration. The correlation analysis revealed the fact that there is a significant and positive relationship between students levels of need for cognition, metacognition and their academic achievement at the level of p<0.01. The multiple linear regression analysis suggested that the power of need for cognition and metacognition to predict academic achievement are meaningful. In another word, the two independent variables, namely need for cognition and metacognition can be considered as the significant predictors of the dependent variable, academic achievement. Keywords: need for cognition, metacognition, academic achievement, language learning For downloading the full article, please access the following link: http://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejfl/article/view/702 Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 52