Metacognitive awareness levels, foreign language language learning beliefs and the relationship between foreign language anxieties of high school students

This study has been carried out to determine the metacognitive awareness levels, foreign language learning beliefs, foreign language anxiety and the relationship between these factors of Anatolian high school students. 788 students from all class levels who study in Anatolian high schools in Düzce participated explanatory correlational research study. Personal Information Form, Metacognitive Awareness Inventory, Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory and Foreign Classroom Language Anxiety Scale are applied to the students. According to the data gathered at the end of study, it has been concluded that metacognitive awaraness levels of the students are high. When looked from the gender variable, metacognitive awareness levels, language learning beliefs and foreign language anxiety of students make no meaningful difference. When it is considered from the class level variable, as class level gets higher metacognitive awareness and foreign language anxiety levels get higher too however, there is no a meaningful difference between language learning beliefs and class levels. While there is a positively medium level relation between metacognitive awareness levels and language learning beliefs, there is a positively low level relation between metacognitive awareness levels and foreign language learning anxiety levels. Finally there is a positively very low level relation between language learning beliefs , metacognitive awareness levels and foreign language learning anxieties of students.