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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"metalinguistic awareness"”.
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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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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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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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Processes Underlying Syntactic Control: Evaluating Linguistically Diverse Children
… focused on the mechanisms involved in syntactic awareness development in monolingual and bilingual (English/Spanish-speaking) nine-year-olds. Inclusion of child language brokers (those who translate and interpret for non-English speaking family members) diversified the definition of "bilingual." …
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Vocabulary Through Affixes and Word Families - A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Program for Adult ELL Students
… students. This work discusses the importance of metalinguistic awareness in teaching vocabulary to adult English Language Learners at an intermediate- or advanced-level of English language proficiency with an emphasis on learning vocabulary through word families and increased morphological …
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Recontextualistion in the police station
… officers and detainees exhibit sophisticated metalinguistic awareness, reflecting on their own recontextualisation practices and other practices that they encounter. The thesis concludes that recontextualisation in the police station is not simply about transmission of information and that its …
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Monolingual policies in the EFL/bilingual classroom: teachers' perceptions of and beliefs about L1/L2 use.
… practices to give voice and promote metalinguistic awareness. Findings further illuminate how the language policy overrides the teachers' opinion on the pedagogical value of the other language, exposing a juxtaposition between teachers' beliefs and practices. The language transactions …
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Perspectives on bi/multilingual pedagogies: insights from a third-year linguistics module at a South African university
… translanguaging and critical language awareness, the study explores the use of bi/multilingual pedagogies by third year linguistics lecturers and their students at a selected university in the Western Cape in South Africa. A qualitative case study was conducted at a selected South …
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The language and literacy skills and behaviours of two middle primary severely to profoundly hearing impaired students in the school environment
… they displayed delays in receptive language and metalinguistic awareness both boys were able to read, but with different levels of achievement: one showed delays in both word recognition and comprehension; the other demonstrated particularly strong word recognition but less highly developed …
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To What Extent Does Learning a Sign Language Orthography (SLO) Support Deaf Children’s Bi-literacy Development? An Investigation into the Relationship Between SLO Acquisition and British Sign Language and English Development.
… using BSLwrite in the classroom to contribute to metalinguistic awareness, metacognition and understanding of varying grammar structures. This study shows that integrating BSLwrite in schools critically impacts deaf students by improving their bilingual literacy, fostering the development of their …
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Sound perception and production in a foreign language
… be the driving factor and it is suggested that metalinguistic awareness can explain the asymmetry between the two perception experiments. The production experiment supported the results of the identification task in that lengthening h did not help Polish learners in producing German vowel length …
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How can translanguaging be used to support the development of conceptual understanding of division with 8-9-year-old learners in an English-French bilingual education context?
… themselves. Pupils displayed high levels of metalinguistic awareness and strong inhibitory control in their approaches to solving mathematics calculations. Furthermore, the findings illustrate the bespoke and individualised nature of language use by pupils, including the role of motivation in …
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Theory of Mind Measurements and Mechanisms: An Investigation of Construct Validity and Cognitive Processes in Theory of Mind Tasks
… Study 2 examines individual differences in metalinguistic awareness, executive function, and bilingualism as predictors of ToM. The results showed that all variables significantly predicted ToM, but bilingualism was not a significant moderator of ToM. Overall, the findings suggest that in …
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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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Korean emergent bilingual students’ language use and translanguaging
… demonstrating their sociolinguistic knowledge, metalinguistic awareness, metacognitive insight, and sociocultural understanding. Close analysis of the focal third-graders’ longitudinal language use revealed that they continued to employ their HL and had improved their Korean proficiency and …
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Constructing a pedagogical third space with multilingual children: A case study of the bilingual Stars of Today Literacy Club# (STLC#)
… interpreting, multiple languaging, and metalinguistic awareness are higher order skills that create opportunities for children to think deeply about the task at hand, make explicit their thinking processes by engaging in exploratory talk, and write to express what they know and feel.
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Consciência metalinguística na aquisição bilíngue : estudo de caso de uma criança bilíngue em espanhol e português do Brasil aos nove-dez anos de idade
O presente trabalho tem como principal objetivo apresentar uma visão global do processo de aquisição bilíngue de uma criança em Espanhol (E) e Português do Brasil (PB). Trata-se de um estudo de caso em condições desfavoráveis ao bilinguismo infantil até os 9 anos de idade da criança em observação. …
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Desenvolvimento da consciência metalinguística na aquisição bilingue de português e neerlandês: estudo de caso
A presente dissertação dedica-se ao estudo do desenvolvimento da consciência metalinguística no bilinguismo precoce e na aquisição bilingue simultânea do português e do neerlandês. A investigação é desenvolvida a partir de um estudo de caso de uma criança, dos 2;4 até os 3 anos de idade, por meio …