ABSTRACT
In recent years, many efforts have been made to develop new methods of training sports skills that, in addition to teaching game techniques and tactics, further challenge the cognition and emotion of learners. The aim of the present study was to to compare of traditional and sport-education (SE) methods on metacognition and metaemotion in tennis skills. The present study was a quasi-experimental study with a pre- post test design. The subjects included 24 adolescent girls from Urmia city (age: 16.54±1.36 years) who were non-randomly divided into: sport-education and traditional training groups. The training consisted of 14 sessions over 4 weeks (3 sessions per week). The research instruments were Wells' Metacognitive Questionnaire and Mittmannsgruber's Metaemotional Questionnaire. The was a significant difference between the two traditional and sport-education methods groups in increasing meta-cognition (p=0.004), positive meta-emotion (p=0.007), and negative met-aemotion (p=0.015). In the sport-education methods, meta-cognition (p=0.001) and positive meta-emotion (p=0.001) significantly increased, and negative metaemotion (p=0.001) improved. but the changes in these indicators were not significant in the traditional group (P>0.05). So, beginners can benefit from the physical benefits and improve the meta-cognitive and meta-emotional knowledge of this type of training method by performing sports activities using the sport-education methods.
