The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the Community of Inquiry learning model on metacognition skills in the Scientific and critical reading course in English Education students. This study used a quasi-experimental design by comparing two groups, experimental and control. The experimental group used the Community of Inquiry learning model, and the control group used the learning model usually done by lecturers. The research subjects were 140 students, were divided into 70 students for the experimental group, and 70 students for the control group. The data analysis technique used was to compare the two groups which were calculated statistically. The results of the analysis test show that there is an effect of the Community of Inquiry learning model on metacognitive skills in the Scientific and critical reading course in English Education students for the control and experimental classes with a significance level of 0.000 (< 0.05), it can be concluded that there is an effect of the Community learning model. of Inquiry on metacognitive skills. Students in the control group showed better metacognitive skills than the control group.