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Metalinguistic awareness in bilinguals

2023
Abstract The goal of this chapter is to outline Ellen Bialystok’s contribution to our understanding of metalinguistic awareness development. We start by describing both her work in the field and her cognitive framework that outlines the components (i.e., linguistic analysis & control) needed to successfully
Deanna Friesen, Chastine Lamoureux
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Metalinguistic Awareness in Children: A Developmental Progression

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1999
The purpose of this study was to determine if a developmental order exists in the metalinguistic ability of children to make judgments about the form of language while simultaneously attending to a meaningful linguistic context. The stimulus material consisted of a short story into which 20 nonsense lexical items had been substituted.
Edwards, Harold T., Kirkpatrick, Anita G.   +1 more
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Metalinguistic Awareness and Education

1984
In earlier chapters in this volume there has been discussion of the identity, form and genesis of metalinguistic awareness in children. Seen from both the conceptual and empirical perspectives in the current literature on the topic it appears possible to identify metalinguistic awareness in conjunction with a series of changes in cognitive processing ...
Michael L. Herriman, Marion E. Myhill
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Metalinguistic awareness and reading strategies

Bulletin of the Orton Society, 1978
A relatively large group of children does not learn to read with traditional methods of instruction in a regular classroom setting. Although estimates of the prevalence of reading disabilities vary according to the definitions used and according to the severity of the disorder, there is a general consensus that at least 15 percent of school age ...
Pamela Evans Hook, Doris J. Johnson
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Childhood Bidialectism and Metalinguistic Awareness

Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 2009
Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, Vol 18 (2009): Selected Papers from the 18th International Symposium on Theoretical and Aplied Linguistics, Thessaloniki 4-6 May ...
Papapavlou, Andreas, Phili, Andrie
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Metalinguistic Awareness and Bilingualism

1984
Research on the effects of bilingualism on children’s cognitive growth and academic achievement has generated conflicting results. Older studies tend to point to negative effects for bilingualism, while more recent work indicates that, on the contrary, bilingualism may produce positive effects [see Cummins, 1979, for a review of relevant research]. One
William E. Tunmer, Marion E. Myhill
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Metalinguistic awareness in Dutch immigrants

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1992
Abstract In this paper data are presented on some aspects of metalinguistic awareness in Dutch adults who emigrated to Australia at least 25 years ago. A grammatically judgement test was administered to 37 informants in Melbourne.
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Metalinguistic Awareness and Reading Acquisition

1984
The ability to read is a traditional criterion of academic achievement and is basic to success in almost every aspect of the school curriculum. It is a prerequisite skill for nearly all jobs and the primary key to lifelong learning. Despite its importance, however, it is well documented that not all children attending school attain full literacy in ...
William E. Tunmer, Judith A. Bowey
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Metalinguistic awareness and language development

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1982
Abstract Thirty-six 3- and 4-year-old children were given a battery of six metalinguistic tasks and two measures of language development: the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and a sentence comprehension test. The results clearly showed that the majority of preschoolers were able to make at least some metalinguistic judgments, and that metalinguistic ...
Carol L. Smith, Helen Tager-Flusberg
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The Development of Metalinguistic Awareness: An Introduction

1984
The study of metalinguistic awareness in children has attracted considerable attention from developmental psychologists, developmental psycholinguists and educationists. In this chapter we will consider some of the reasons for recent interest in the topic and introduce some of the issues and problems that are associated with the study of metalinguistic
Chris Pratt, Robert Grieve
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