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Learner Metalinguistic Reflections Following Output-oriented and Reflective Activities

Language Awareness, 2007
Several researchers have found that the type of task and learners' level of L2 proficiency are major determinants of the type and amount of metatalk. This paper is the first attempt to investigate potential interactions among the type of metatalk, the type of task and learners' level of L2 proficiency.
Wataru Suzuki, Nobuya Itagaki
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Effects of the 4/3/2 activity revisited: Extending Boers (2014) and Thai & Boers (2016)

Language Teaching Research, 2021
Whereas scholars have extensively researched the pedagogical potential of 4/3/2 activities (i.e. increasing time pressure in task repetition) for enhancing second language (L2) fluency, its impact on L2 accuracy remains unclear.
M. Tran, Kazuya Saito
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Guerrilla fan translation, language learning, and metalinguistic discussion in a Catalan-speaking community of gamers

, 2020
Driven by their affinity to popular culture, fans frequently engage in linguistic practices that may be conducive to language learning. This study seeks to find out how a group of Catalan-speaking gamers decided to start producing fan translations of ...
Boris Vazquez-Calvo
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Metalinguistic comments as a tool for bottom-up language policy

Language Dynamics and Change, 2019
This article demonstrates that analyzing evaluative metalinguistic comments on linguistic features can be a valuable diagnostic tool in understanding how emergent varieties develop and conventionalize.
M. Dorleijn
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DEVELOPMENT OF METALINGUISTIC ABILITIES IN BILINGUAL PUPILS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AS A SEPARATE PROBLEM OF TEACHING LANGUAGES

Pedagogical Education in Russia, 2019
The article is devoted to problematic issues of training junior school children in Russian in the context of interconnected teaching languages in bilingual educational activity.
V. Y. Unarova, Elizaveta Aleksandrovna Khamrayeva   +1 more
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Metalinguistic activities as a focus of sociolinguistic research: Language Management Theory, its potential, and fields of application

Sociolinguistica, 2022
Abstract The paper aims at identifying common features in various fields of sociolinguistic research which would help rationalize methodological procedures and increase their efficiency. To this end, the paper discusses Language Management Theory, which focuses on the metalinguistic activities or behavior toward language of various ...
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Making Sense of a Puzzling Activity: Awakening to Languages in an English as an Additional Language Classroom

RELC Journal : A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia
According to Fidler, the pluralistic approach known as awakening to languages (AtL) holds the potential to positively impact metalinguistic awareness (MA) among young additional language learners.
Kevin Randall Steil, Danielli Neves Matias Santos   +1 more
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The role of dialect in comedy performances: focus on enregisterment and humor

English Language and Linguistics
Many of the most popular comedy performances are rich in non-standard linguistic features of English. This article addresses how dialect contributes to the humor in comedy performances, and how humorous dialect performance leads to the enregisterment of ...
Johanna Gerwin
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MEDIA AS A COLLECTIVE INTERPRETER(DEFINITIONS OF WORDS IN THE MATERIALS OF THE PUBLISHING HOUSE “KOMMERSANT” 1994-2024)

Sign: problematic field in mediaeducation
The article is devoted to the analysis of word interpretations in media texts of recent decades. The goal is to identify the main techniques for presenting word meanings in the materials of «Kommersant» Publishing House in 1994-2024 and to characterize ...
E. Basovskaya
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Counter Text as a Tool for Studying Understanding

Proceedings of the Southwest State University. Series: Linguistics and Pedagogy
The purpose of the research is to investigate the phenomenon of counter text from the point of view of psycholinguistic mechanisms of activity that “launches” its creation – the individual’s metalinguistic activity.
T. V. Kruzhilina
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