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Metacognition in Multilingual Learning and Teaching: Multilingual Awareness as a Central Subcomponent of Metacognition in Research and Practice
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Jessner, Ulrike; Allgäuer-Hackl, Elisabeth – AILA Review, 2022
Metacognition has been increasingly discussed as one of the main features of learning in the 21st century (see Haukås, Bjørke, & Dypedahl, 2018). In the Dynamic Model of Multilingualism Theory (DMM) (Herdina & Jessner 2002), which applies Complexity and Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) to multilingualism, it is argued that multilinguals…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Bilingual Education, Multilingualism, Linguistic Theory
Multilingualism at the Primary Level in South Tyrol: How Does Multilingual Education Affect Young Learners' Metalinguistic Awareness and Proficiency in L1, L2 and L3?
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Hofer, Barbara; Jessner, Ulrike – Language Learning Journal, 2019
The present study looks into the effects of early multilingual education by investigating linguistic knowledge and metalinguistic awareness in young learners at the primary level. The study aims to establish whether children in multilingual education programmes perform higher on a measure of metalinguistic awareness and with regards to their L1…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Metalinguistics
Emerging Multilingual Awareness in Educational Contexts: From Theory to Practice
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Jessner, Ulrike; Allgäuer-Hackl, Elisabeth; Hofer, Barbara – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2016
The aim of this article is to stress the importance of a dynamic systems or complexity theory approach as a necessary prerequisite to understanding the development of multi-competence in multilingual learners. Selected results from a study on emergent multilingual awareness in children, carried out in South Tyrol, are outlined and discussed. The…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Theory Practice Relationship, Foreign Countries, Class Activities
Emerging Multilingual Awareness in Educational Contexts: From Theory to Practice
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Jessner, Ulrike; Allgäuer-Hackl, Elisabeth; Hofer, Barbara – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2015
The aim of this article is to stress the importance of a dynamic systems or complexity theory approach as a necessary prerequisite to understanding the development of multi-competence in multilingual learners. Selected results from a study on emergent multilingual awareness in children, carried out in South Tyrol, are outlined and discussed. The…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods
A DST Model of Multilingualism and the Role of Metalinguistic Awareness
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Jessner, Ulrike – Modern Language Journal, 2008
This paper suggests that a dynamic systems theory (DST) provides an adequate conceptual metaphor for discussing multilingual development. Multilingual acquisition is a nonlinear and complex dynamic process depending on a number of interacting factors. Variability plays a crucial role in the multilingual system as it changes over time (Herdina &…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Figurative Language, Multilingualism, Systems Approach
Multilingual Metalanguage, or the Way Multilinguals Talk about Their Languages
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Jessner, Ulrike – Language Awareness, 2005
The increase of multilingualism in both natural and formal contexts has provoked a number of studies which have concentrated on providing evidence of multilingual processing and finding out about the differences and similarities between second and third language learning. This paper deals with the use of metalanguage in multilingual students in an…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Students, Metalinguistics, Student Behavior
Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilinguals: Cognitive Aspects of Third Language Learning.
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Jessner, Ulrike – Language Awareness, 1999
Discusses the role of metalinguistic awareness in multilinguals within the framework of a systems-theoretic approach to multilingual proficiency. Data from trilingual adults on their use of certain problem-solving behavior in think-aloud protocols during the academic writing process are shown to provide evidence of certain processes taking place…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Language Proficiency, Metalinguistics