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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how non‐native and heritage‐background graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) negotiate legitimacy and construct their professional identities as Korean language teachers at a major public university in New Zealand. Drawing on data from a questionnaire and semi‐structured interviews, the findings reveal the influence of ...
Mi Yung Park +2 more
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METALINGUISTIC AWARENESS. THEORY, DEVELOPMENT AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS
, 1999 The book presents an overview on the concept of metalinguistic awareness from a theoretical linguistic, developmental, and applied perspective and then describes three tests for assessing metalinguistic awareness from 4 years-old to adult ...
TITONE, Renzo +2 more
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Implications of Metalinguistic Awareness on Early Childhood Word-Referent Mapping [PDF]
, 2022 Children exhibit word-referent learning mechanisms like statistical learning (SL) proposed by Yu and Smith (2007) and propose-but-verify (PBV) mechanisms proposed by Medina (2011), but prior work has yet to investigate how children develop metalinguistic
Yang, Zinan
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Listener Commentary Reveals the Social Salience of Accent Features
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how listeners from two regions of England perceive and describe Northern English accents. Using the Salient Language in Context (SLIC) methodology, 94 respondents from two regions of England listened to recorded voices, clicking when they noticed features and providing open‐ended comments.
Chris Montgomery
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How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
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Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2008 Studies carried out in English orthography show that the ability to reflect upon the word's morphemes is related to the success in recognizing words, reading comprehension and spelling.
Márcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da Mota +1 more
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Metalinguistic awareness in primary schoolers in multilingual partial immersion education
Frontiers in Language SciencesIntroductionThis paper reports selective findings from original research into the effects of early multilingual partial immersion education on children's metalinguistic awareness and performance in English.Procedure and methodThe study we present was ...
Barbara Hofer +5 more
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The Role of Age and Instruction in Children's Learning of Vocabulary and Grammar
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract It is generally assumed that children and adults learn language through fundamentally different mechanisms: Children predominantly rely on implicit learning, and adults utilize more explicit strategies (Lichtman, 2016). However, little is known about when and how learners begin to benefit from explicit instruction over the course of language ...
Wensi Zhang +2 more
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Does schooling moderate the relationship between morphological awareness and spelling?
Revista de Investigación en LogopediaChildren's awareness of morphemes improves over the elementary school years, but its role in determining literacy skills, particularly those in spelling, is still an open question.
Dalva Silva Alves Santos +4 more
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Revista Arbitrada Interdisciplinaria Koinonía, 2019 The study aims to determine whether or not there is a significant difference in phonological awareness skills among Peruvian children with different family structures. The study corresponds to a comparative descriptive non-experimental design. The sample
Fanny Miriam Sanabria Boudri. +2 more
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