Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition
Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition

Author: Karen Roehr-Brackin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1317338804

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Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition is the first book to present an in-depth overview of metalinguistic awareness as it relates to SLA. In this volume, Roehr-Brackin discusses metalinguistic awareness in the context of both child and adult language learning, and outlines the various methods that can be used to measure metalinguistic awareness. The author presents different approaches to metalinguistic awareness, including a cognitive-developmental perspective that explains how the concept relates to literacy, and an applied linguistics perspective that understands metalinguistic awareness as explicit or conscious knowledge about language. Roehr-Brackin explores the role of metalinguistic awareness in language education aimed at young learners, as well as in instructed adult SLA. This book is an excellent resource for those researching or taking courses in second language acquisition, bi- and multilingualism, and language teaching.

Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition
Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition

Author: Karen Roehr-Brackin

Publisher: Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition Series

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781138958869

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Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition is the first book to present an in-depth overview of metalinguistic awareness as it relates to SLA. In this volume, Roehr-Brackin discusses metalinguistic awareness in the context of both child and adult language learning, and outlines the various methods that can be used to measure metalinguistic awareness. The author presents different approaches to metalinguistic awareness, including a cognitive-developmental perspective that explains how the concept relates to literacy, and an applied linguistics perspective that understands metalinguistic awareness as explicit or conscious knowledge about language. Roehr-Brackin explores the role of metalinguistic awareness in language education aimed at young learners, as well as in instructed adult SLA. This book is an excellent resource for those researching or taking courses in second language acquisition, bi- and multilingualism, and language teaching.

Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition
Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition

Author: Karen Roehr-Brackin

Publisher: Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition Series

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781138958876

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In the first volume to present an in-depth overview of metalinguistics as it relates to SLA, Roehr-Brackin discusses metalinguistic awareness in both contexts of child and adult learners, addresses the relationship between metalinguistic awareness and metalanguage, and outlines the methods that can be used to measure metalinguistic awareness.

The Metalinguistic Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning
The Metalinguistic Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning

Author: Karen Roehr

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1441168567

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The metalinguistic dimension refers to the way in which learners bring to bear knowledge about language into their learning of a second language, the "L2". This book brings together new research on the metalinguistic dimension, given its increasing importance in the study of L2 acquisition. In applied linguistics it is widely accepted that L2 learners develop and use knowledge about language when engaging with the challenging task of acquiring a new language; this applies to both children and adults. It is definitions of the metalinguistic dimension that vary, and findings regarding its role in L2 learning are not necessarily homogenous or compatible. The scope exists for further, empirical, detailed research. This book explores the nature, development and role of the metalinguistic dimension and will be essential reading for all SLA scholars and those working in language and education.

Understanding Second Language Process
Understanding Second Language Process

Author: Zhaohong Han

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1847690130

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This is a collection of 11 analytical and empirical studies on the process of second language acquisition, probing a wide array of issues, from transfer appropriate processing to L2 default processing strategies, among hearing or deaf learners of a variety of target languages.

Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in Second Language Learning, Testing and Teaching
Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in Second Language Learning, Testing and Teaching

Author: Rod Ellis

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2009-06-19

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1847698859

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The implicit/ explicit distinction is central to our understanding of the nature of L2 acquisition. This book begins with an account of how this distinction applies to L2 learning, knowledge and instruction. It then reports a series of studies describing the development of a battery of tests providing relatively discrete measurements of L2 explicit/ implicit knowledge. These tests were then utilized to examine a number of key issues in SLA - the learning difficulty of different grammatical structures, the role of L2 implicit/ explicit knowledge in language proficiency, the relationship between learning experiences and learners’ language knowledge profiles, the metalinguistic knowledge of teacher trainees and the effects of different types of form-focused instruction on L2 acquisition. The book concludes with a consideration of how the tests can be further developed and applied in the study of L2 acquisition.

Awareness in Action
Awareness in Action

Author: Andrzej Łyda

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-09-07

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 3319004611

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The papers included in the volume look at how language awareness affects the outcomes of foreign and second language acquisition in advanced learners. The book focuses on questions such as how much linguistic knowledge is open to the learner’s conscious experience, what should and should not be considered the knowledge of language, how language awareness can be enhanced in the classroom, and, most crucially, what effects language awareness has on attained proficiency. Some papers in the volume also address methodological challenges of researching language awareness, such as the difficulty of defining and measuring awareness with sufficient precision.

Second Language Writing Systems
Second Language Writing Systems

Author: Vivian Cook

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9781853597930

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Second Language Writing Systems looks at how people learn and use a second language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the first and second writing systems, to a certain extent independently of the languages involved. This book for the first time presents the effects of writing systems on second language reading and writing and on second language awareness, and provides a new platform for discussing bilingualism, biliteracy and writing systems.

Metalinguistic Performance and Interlinguistic Competence
Metalinguistic Performance and Interlinguistic Competence

Author: David Birdsong

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 364274124X

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It is often assumed that metalinguistic performance (e.g., detection of ambiguity, judgments of grammaticality) straightforwardly reflects linguistic knowledge. The inadequacies of such an assumption are explored in this volume, which documents the subtleties of the relationship between metalinguistic performance and knowledge of a second language (interlinguistic competence) from the perspectives of language acquisition theory and cognitive and developmental psychology. This thorough and up-to-date examination of metalinguistic phenomena offers insight to those involved in designing elicitation materials, analyzing and interpreting metalinguistic performance data, and applying such evidence to descriptions of interlanguage grammars and to second-language acquisition theory. The book also contributes constructively to the current debate concerning the role of metalinguistic variables in second-language acquisition, that is, how they ultimately affect success or failure in learning a second language.

Metalinguistic Awareness in Second Language Reading Development
Metalinguistic Awareness in Second Language Reading Development

Author: Sihui Echo Ke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-02-23

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1108981291

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This Element aims to address the complexity of metalinguistic awareness to achieve a thorough account of its impacts on second language (L2) reading development and promote an in-depth understanding of the factors regulating the influence of first language (L1) metalinguistic awareness on L2 reading. It is guided by four questions: 1) To what extent do L1 phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness correlate with L2 phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness in L2 readers? 2) To what extent do phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness correlate with word decoding intralingually in L2 readers? 3) To what extent do L1 phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness correlate with L2 word decoding in L2 readers? 4) To what extent do the relations in questions 1–3 vary as a function of linguistic-, learner-, measurement-, and instruction-related factors? This Element is the first to systematically investigate the roles of distinct facets of metalinguistic awareness in L2 reading.