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Is L2 Learners' Metaphorical Competence Essentially Cognitive, Linguistic, or Personal?-A Meta-Analysis. [PDF]

J Intell
Chen Z, Guan L, Zhou X.
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Sentences Are Key: Helping School-Age Children and Adolescents Build Sentence Skills Needed for Real Language. [PDF]

Am J Speech Lang Pathol
Balthazar CH, Scott CM.
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Metalinguistic knowledge, metalingual knowledge, and proficiency in L2 Spanish

Language Awareness, 2013
The role of metalinguistic knowledge of language and knowledge of technical terms (i.e. metalingual knowledge) in second language (L2) learning and use is a matter of controversy in the field of Second Language Acquisition. This paper examines the development of these two types of knowledge in adult university-level learners of L2 Spanish, and their ...
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Metalinguistic knowledge, metalanguage, and their relationship in L2 learners

System, 2011
Abstract This paper reports on a study designed to investigate the acquisition of metalinguistic knowledge by L2 learners exposed to large doses of explicit grammar instruction, their facility with metalanguage, and the relationship between metalinguistic and metalingual knowledge.
Guangwei Hu
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The metalinguistic knowledge of undergraduate students of English language or linguistics

Language Awareness, 2013
It is often asserted that UK school-leavers know less grammatical terminology than in earlier years. However, objective data on this supposed phenomenon are somewhat scarce. The study reported in this paper aimed to see whether and to what extent knowledge about language (KaL) has declined over three decades, and how this might relate to university ...
Richard Hudson
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The status of metalinguistic knowledge in instructed adult L2 learning

Language Awareness, 2009
This study investigated second language metalinguistic knowledge, or explicit knowledge about the second language, in English-speaking university-level learners of German and Spanish. The status of metalinguistic knowledge in relation to the individual difference variables of language-learning aptitude, working memory for language, and participants ...
Gabriela Adela Gánem-Gutiérrez
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Explicit, implicit and metalinguistic knowledge in L2 Chinese

Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2016
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between metalinguistic knowledge and language proficiency in L2 Chinese. In line with the distinction between explicit knowledge and implicit knowledge, different tests were designed and then administered to 38 intermediate level learners of Chinese in order to measure the difference between the ...
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Metalinguistic knowledge

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Abstract This paper reports on a project (funded by a small Australian Research Council grant) investigating levels of metalinguistic knowledge of English and other languages amongst first-year undergraduate learners of French, Chinese and Italian and the relationship between this knowledge and success in studying a language at ...
Cathie Elder, Jane Warren, John Hajek, Diane Manwaring, Alan Davies   +4 more
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The foundations and development of metalinguistic knowledge

Journal of Child Language, 2002
Ravid & Tolchinsky present a valuable framework for understanding the development of metalinguistic knowledge (i.e. grasp of language form as opposed to content). Although this framework makes an admirable contribution, we question the authors' emphasis on familiarity with written language as an enabling condition, and instead outline an ...
Dean, Sharpe, Philip David, Zelazo
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Metalinguistic Skills, Oral Language Knowledge, and Reading

Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
This article reviews findings concerning the role of linguistic awareness in oral language development and reading and in understanding the reading problems of children with oral language problems.
Paula Menyuk, Marie Chesnick
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