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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Metalinguistic"”.
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An investigation of metalinguistic judgments in Broca's aphasia
… ability of people with Broca's aphasia to make metalinguistic judgments concerning what was or was not a violation of linguistic rule usage within both the semantic and syntactic domains. A total of 20 white agrammatic and normal speakers, ages 33 to 78, were asked to judge, revise, and explain …
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The Primary Language Classroom: Praxis and Perceptions of Metalinguistic Awareness
… <br/> •Manifestations or indications of metalinguistic awareness amongst pupils towards the end of their primary school experience.<br/>•Pupil perceptions of language analysis.<br/>•Professional perceptions of multilingualism, language analysis, and language teaching in the primary …
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Intimations of the Absolute: Afanasii Fet's Metalinguistic and Aspectual Poetics
This work explores the poetry of Afanasii Fet from the perspective that careful observation of certain meta-lingual features of his work, most notably his use of verbal aspect, are relevant to understanding his metaphysical strivings and philosophical beliefs. The analytical focus is on a series of …
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The role of metalinguistic terminology in second language teaching and learning
What is the role of metalinguistic terminology in second language teaching and learning? Specifically, how is metalinguistic terminology used in foreign language textbooks? To what extent are students familiar with metalinguistic terms? What effect does the instruction of metalinguistic terminology …
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School-Age Children's Ability to Produce and Judge Syntactic Forms (Metalinguistic Skill)
This study investigated 60 school-age children's ability to produce and judge grammaticality of three verb forms. Grade 1, 2, and 3 children produced the perfect (have taken), perfect progressive (have been taking), and past progressive (was taking) in a story retelling task. They judged …
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USING HUMOR TO ENHANCE METALINGUISTIC AWARENESS AND EXPAND CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN ADULT ESL CLASSROOMS
… help them help their students increase their metalinguistic awareness through the use of adult related humor and humorous wordplay. Using jokes, puns, and riddles, which are all forms of humorous wordplay, to incorporate humor in the adult ESL classroom will not only create a fun and more …
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The relevance of teachers' non-English oral proficiency to their metalinguistic and register awareness of English
… (NNES) English language teachers' metalinguistic and register awareness of English. Teachers were classified as Truly Bilingual (TBL) if they possessed literacy skills in the languages they spoke and not TBL (NTBL) if they did not. A comparative analysis of TBL and NTBL as well as …
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The Effect of a Metalinguistic Approach to Sentence Combining on Written Expression in Eighth Grade Science for Students who Struggle with Literacy
… the present study examined the effects of a metalinguistic approach to the writing intervention of sentence combining with eighth-grade students who struggle with literacy. The researcher conducted the study in a typical science classroom in an urban American school setting. The focus of the …
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EXPLICIT WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND LANGUAGE APTITUDE IN SLA: IMPLICATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF LINGUISTIC ACCURACY
… in order to investigate the effect of direct and metalinguistic written feedback on errors with the simple past tense, the present perfect tense, dropped pronouns, and pronominal duplication. This inquiry also considered the extent to which learner differences in language-analytic ability (LAA), …
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Implicit and explicit instruction: what type of knowledge is promoted? : An empirical study investigating the effects of processing instruction, metalinguistic rule instruction and textual enhancement
… involve any explicit type of instruction. The metalinguistic instruction condition comprised an explanation of three target rules in addition to textual enhancement. The processing instruction condition consisted of an explanation of the target rules plus the completion of structured input …
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Deaf Children's Developing Sign Bilingualism: Dimensions Of Language Ability, Use And Awareness
… supported through the development of their tacit metalinguistic skills acquired as a result of constantly moving between their two languages and so reflecting on and comparing the different ways in which BSL and English convey meaning. This study identifies what constitutes metalinguistic ability …
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Increasing Metalinguistics Awareness as a Necessary Precursor for Preservice Teachers
<p>Metalinguistic awareness (MA) in the context of the present study is the ability to deconstruct and analyze a language's intricate systems, and by doing so, better understand how these systems work. More specifically for the present study, the investigation focused on preservice teachers' MA in …
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The Development of Taiwanese Children's Ability to Infer Orthographic Information From Semantic and Phonological Information
… study explored whether Taiwanese children adopt metalinguistic principles to help their reading and writing development in Chinese, a non-alphabetic language. The relationship between the acquisition of phoneme-grapheme correspondence and reading ability has been well-established for alphabetic …
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Η ΤΑΚΤΙΚΗ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ "ΑΝ ΚΑΙ" ΚΑΙ Η ΣΧΕΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΜΕ ΑΛΛΑ ΣΥΝΔΕΤΙΚΑ. ΣΗΜΑΣΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗ
A METALINGUISTIC AND AN ORDINARY USE ARE DISTINGUISHED IN ADVERBIAL CONNECTION.THE ORDINARY USE OF THE CONNECTIVE ΑΝ ΚΑΙ (=ALTHOUGH) IS DISTINGUISHED FROM (1) THE ΑΝ (=IF), ΑΦΟΥ (=SINCE) AND ΕΠΕΙΔΗ (=BECAUSE) ADVERBIAL CONNECTIVES, (2)THE CONTRASTIVE CONNECTIVE ΑΛΛΑ (=BUT) AND (3) OTHER CONCESSIVE …
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Processes Underlying Syntactic Control: Evaluating Linguistically Diverse Children
… has shown bilingual advantages in areas of metalinguistic awareness and executive function (e.g., Bialystok, 2010; Davidson, Raschke, & Pervez, 2010), however, child language brokers have not been distinguished in these studies. These children, due to early language-switching and translation …
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Extensive Focus on Form, Text -Based Online Chat, and Second Language Learning
… and four FFE variables (feedback complexity, metalinguistic explanation, successful uptake, and post-task report) were significant indicators of correct scores on the FFF-based test items. A post-hoc analysis indicated that the learners whose interaction speed was relatively high benefited …
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Probabilistic semantics for vagueness
… false predictions regarding negations and metalinguistic inference. I thus propose a fundamentally probabilistic semantics for vagueness on which the meaning of a vague predicate is a likelihood function on the states it encodes, with these likelihoods being generated via reinforcement …
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Variation in the performance of speech acts in Peninsular Spanish: apologies and requests
… of this study, native speaker judgments and metalinguistic discussions were conducted to test the speech act data of participants from Castile and Andalusia and to verify the acceptability of the responses. Results show that in the performance of speech acts, little variation is seen for …
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Case Studies of Turkish Children's Literacy and Oral Language Development in English as a Second Language
… writer in both languages. Prior experience with metalinguistic tasks in Turkish seemed to provide Zehra with the skills necessary for initial literacy acquisition in both languages.
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Processing of code-mixed sentences by two types of bilinguals: A comparison of code-mixers and non-code-mixers
… code-mixed sentences. Task 2 was a non-timed metalinguistic grammaticality judgment task in which the same subjects were asked to indicate if the code-mixed sentences presented in the timed task were acceptable or unacceptable code-mixed sentences.
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