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The development of precursors to literacy in mentally disabled children
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1994 This study aimed to investigate metalinguistic precursors to literacy in mentally handicapped children, with a view to improve literacy training in this population.
Debra Marais, Erna Alant
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Children's understanding of homonymy: metalinguistic awareness and false belief [PDF]
, 2000 The aim of this study was to explain why children have difficulty with homonymy. Two experiments were conducted with forty-eight children (Experiment 1) and twenty-four children (Experiment 2).
MARTIN J. DOHERTY +2 more
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Metalinguistic abilities: The contribution to writing
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 The purpose of this study was to explore the contribution of metalinguistic abilities to learning procedures and specifically to writing, according to the beliefs of teachers in primary schools and their students, after the application of a pilot ...
Irini K. Zerva
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Private tutoring—or shadow education—has received ample scholarly attention due to increasing demand from parents for reasons of social mobility in ESL/EFL contexts. Referred to as English private tutoring (EPT) for language learning purposes, this type of non‐formal education shares certain features of formal education like content and ...
Semih Ekin, Ali Anaç, Muhammet Öcel
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Childhood Bidialectism and Metalinguistic Awareness [PDF]
, 2009 The influence of multiple dialects on the linguistic development of bidialectal speakers is thought to be responsible for the reinforcement of certain metalinguistic abilities.
Phili, Andrie, Papapavlou, Andreas
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Utilizing the Multiple Intelligences Theory to Develop Al-Azhar Model Primary Institute Pupils’ EFL Linguistic Competence and Their Metalinguistic Awareness. [PDF]
دراسات تربوية و نفسية - مجلة كلية التربية بالزقازيقThe current study aimed at developing Al-Azhar model primary institute pupils’ EFL linguistic competence and their metalinguistic awareness via the multiple intelligences theory. The quasi-experimental design was adopted in the study. Forty EFL
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Role of Morphological and Metalinguistic Awareness on Reading among Turkish EFL Learners
International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022 This study investigates the effect of morphological treatment on morphological awareness and reading comprehension skill in a foreign language teaching.
Fatma Demiray Akbulut
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Integrating generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into digital multimodal composing (DMC) offers promising avenues for young Foreign Language (FL) learners' learning experiences. Image‐based GenAI tools enable students to generate personalized images from written prompts to help convey meanings, and DMC combines text, images, and sound to
Alex Lap‐kwan Lam
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Metalinguistic awareness and teacher explanation [PDF]
, 1997 In Hong Kong in the past five years, there has been a marked increase of interest in the language awareness of teachers (their ‘metalinguistic awareness’).
Andrews, SJ
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