the relationship among fluid intelligence, metacognitive reading strategies use, and reading comprehension of efl learners

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship among fluid intelligence, metacognitive strategy use and reading comprehension achievement. to this end, the following pertinent questionnaires were given to participants to measure each variable, and by using spss program, pearson correlation formula the relationship among them was determined. 102 undergraduate efl iranian students participated in this study. for this research, the standard progressive matrices (spm) was applied to measure fluid intelligence, metacognitive strategy questionnaire for investigating the students' awareness of global, problem-solving and support reading strategies and finally toefl pbt reading comprehension tests to measure reading comprehension. the findings of the study revealed that there was a significant relationship between fluid intelligence (gf) and the use of the overall metacognitive reading strategies. the relationship between fluid intelligence and the use of each of the three subscales of metacognitive reading strategies namely global, problem solving, and support was also found significantly positive. furthermore, the results indicated that there was a significant relationship between fluid intelligence and participants' reading comprehension. finally, the results revealed a significant relationship between the use of metacognitive reading strategies and reading comprehension.