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Metalinguistic knowledge, language aptitude and language proficiency
Language Teaching Research, 1997This paper reports on an ESRC-funded study of the levels of knowledge about language of first-year undergraduate student learners of French and the relationship between this metalinguistic knowledge and language proficiency and aptitude. Tests of metalinguistic knowledge, language aptitude and French linguistic proficiency were administered to 509 ...
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Misconceptions and Difficulties in the Acquisition of Metalinguistic Knowledge
Language and Education, 2000This paper describes the outcomes of an investigation into the misconceptions and difficulties encountered when learning grammar. The study is based on evidence collected from a class of twelve-year-olds who were engaged upon a workscheme focusing on grammar, andtwo cohortsof PGCE English students undertaking an intensive grammar course.
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Metalinguistic Knowledge and Language Development
1986Abstract A large body of research has shown that metalinguistic knowledge, indirectly linked to comprehension and production processes, develops during childhood (from the age of 3 to 12) according to some general principles: rough stages emerge. Theoretical interest focuses on the relationships between metalinguistic knowledge and acquisition of ...
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The Knowledge Argument, Abilities, And Metalinguistic Beliefs
Erkenntnis, 2001In this paper I discuss a variant of the knowledge argument which is based upon Frank Jackson's Mary thought experiment. Using this argument, Jackson tries to support the thesis that a purely physical – or, put generally: an objectively scientific – perspective upon the world excludes the important domain of ‘phenomenal’ facts, which are only ...
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'Text' as an object of metalinguistic knowledge: a study in literacy development
First Language, 1982Signs of literacy appear in behaviours of young children reared in a literate culture long before they are reading and writing conventionally. In this article, children's abilities to create 'text' are investigated through data from longitudinal studies of literacy acquisition.
Elizabeth Sulzby, Beverly Otto
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Transcription practices and (the documentation of) metalinguistic knowledge
Abstract Transcripts are an integral part of documentary corpora, and transcription, conducted in close cooperation with a language’s speakers/signers, is central to fieldwork activities. Yet, transcription practices — involving decisions that reduce the complexity of an audio/video signal into a written form — remain ...Katherine Walker +2 more
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Metalinguistic Knowledge of Pragmatic Rules in School-Age Children
Child Development, 1984WILKINSON, LOUISE CHERRY; WILKINSON, ALEX CHERRY; SPINELLI, FRANCESCA; AND CHIANG, CHI PANG. Metalinguistic Knowledge of Pragmatic Rules in School-Age Children. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1984, 55, 2130-2140. To study the metapragmatic knowledge of children 5-8 years old, we elicited requests from the children through role playing in hypothetical classrooms ...
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EFL majors' knowledge of metalinguistic terminology: a comparative study
Language Awareness, 2009Two hundred and ninety-six English majors at universities in Poland, Austria and Hong Kong were given a 50-item questionnaire designed to evaluate their knowledge of grammatical terminology. The main aim was to identify whether the three populations were subject to differing ‘terminological cultures’.
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Teachers’ awareness of learners’ knowledge: The case of metalinguistic terminology
Language Awareness, 1997This paper describes a study which investigated the knowledge of metalinguistic terminology in a group of 372 first‐year undergraduates in a tertiary institution in Hong Kong and compared this to their English teachers’ estimation of that knowledge and desire to use such terminology.
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