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Uddling, Jenny – Language and Education, 2022
It has previously been suggested that there is a need for a more language focused science instruction, especially in linguistically diverse classrooms, where many students are second language learners. But it has also been suggested that teachers may feel uncertainty about how to teach in ways that promote learning of both subject matter and…
Descriptors: Physics, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers, Metalinguistics
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Wang, Zhenliang; Xie, Ruibo; Wu, Xinchun; Xia, Yue; Yu, Yanling; Nguyen, Thi Phuong; Cheng, Zizhuo – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background and Aims: Morphological awareness is an essential ability for successful reading. This study aimed to explore the contribution of morphological awareness to reading comprehension (RC) in Chinese. Particularly, this study sought to determine whether the relation between morphological awareness and RC differs across various facets of…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Grade 6, Metalinguistics
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Healey, Brett; Gardner, Paul – Language Awareness, 2023
The abstract nature of grammar makes metalinguistic thinking a challenge for both teachers and students. However, it is suggested writing conferences in which students are encouraged to reflect on grammatical choices and their impact on meaning may be an effective means to develop metalinguistic awareness. This paper draws on cognitive linguistics…
Descriptors: Grammar, Metalinguistics, Conferences (Gatherings), Writing (Composition)
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Christina Tjandra – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
This study investigates the implications of engaging plurilingual children in creative multilingual placemaking practices on their language awareness and sense of belonging. Children participated in carefully designed class activities, engaging in tasks focused on reflecting on their own identities, the community's, and the neighbourhood's,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Creativity, Metalinguistics, Sense of Community
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Reem Khamis-Dakwar; Baha Makhoul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The study examined the relationship between children's explicit knowledge and awareness of diglossia (EKAD) and learning Arabic in school. Additionally, this study addresses the interrelationships between EKAD and oral comprehension, lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic awareness upon the transition to reading to learn. Thirty typicaly…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Arabic, Gender Differences
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Layes, Smail; Bouakkaz, Torkia – British Journal of Special Education, 2022
The present study explored whether phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness (MA) and visual attention (VA) independently predict word and pseudoword reading accuracy in native Arabic-speaking children from grades 4 and 5. A total of 141 participants took part in the study, and were divided into two groups of readers with (n = 30) and…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Semitic Languages, Syllables, Accuracy
Kimberly Wolbers; Hannah Dostal; Steve Graham; Lee Branum-Martin; Leala Holcomb – Exceptional Children, 2022
Strategic and Interactive Writing Instruction (SIWI) involves teaching cognitive writing strategies and apprenticing novices within collaborative writing communities. It is responsive to deaf students' diverse language experiences through embedded metalinguistic/linguistic components. A randomized controlled trial of SIWI was conducted with 15…
Descriptors: Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Natascha Drachmann – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Within educational research, there has been an increased interest in recent years to develop learners' language awareness (LA) in the context of plurilingual education. Recommendations and intentions are given pointing to the benefits, but there are few concrete tools for how it can be carried out in practice. The article seeks to contribute to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teacher Attitudes, Models, Metalinguistics
Kimberly Wolbers; Hannah Dostal; Steve Graham; Lee Branum-Martin; Leala Holcomb – Grantee Submission, 2022
Strategic and Interactive Writing Instruction (SIWI) involves teaching cognitive writing strategies and apprenticing novices within collaborative writing communities. It is responsive to deaf students' diverse language experiences through embedded metalinguistic/linguistic components. A randomized controlled trial of SIWI was conducted with 15…
Descriptors: Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Cenoz, Jasone; Leonet, Oihana; Gorter, Durk – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article is on pedagogical translanguaging, understood as planned instructional strategies used with a pedagogical purpose in a multilingual educational context. The paper reports a study on cognate identification and cognate awareness carried out in a multilingual primary school. The study aims at analyzing whether the identification of…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students
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Wandera, David B. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
This article is based on the assumption that indigenous communities have a capacity to generate knowledge, and this capacity is largely underutilized or peripheralized in mainstream research. In this empirical qualitative study, the author makes a case for employing local non-Western analytic tools, in addition to Western analytic tools, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Afrocentrism
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Zaidi, Rahat – Journal of Literacy Research, 2020
This collaborative action research project in Alberta, Canada, explored how dual-language books (DLBs) can foster literacy instruction and learner engagement through language awareness. Canada's changing demographics have resulted in mother tongue diversity and many urban schools identifying at least 25% of students as being English language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Childrens Literature, Learner Engagement, Metalinguistics
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Peng, Peng; Lee, Kejin; Luo, Jie; Li, Shuting; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Tao, Sha – Review of Educational Research, 2021
With a one-stage meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) analysis based on 49,416 individuals from 267 independent samples and 210 studies, the current study systematically investigated models including meta-linguistic skills, decoding, language comprehension, and reading comprehension for Chinese population. Findings showed that (1)…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading Instruction, Metalinguistics, Reading Skills
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Chan, Jessica S.; Wade-Woolley, Lesly; Heggie, Lindsay; Kirby, John R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
We examined the unique contributions of prosodic awareness and morphological awareness to school-aged children's word reading and reading comprehension. A total of 110 elementary-age children from Grades 4 and 5 participated in the current study. To measure prosodic awareness, children were asked to listen to and reflect on the stress patterns of…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Individual Differences, Reading Comprehension
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Kogawa, Eliza – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This essay investigates the classroom talk and reflections of a Year 5 lesson on reading and writing beyond Standard English. Its title refers to 'Reflecting Realities', the CLPE survey of ethnic diversity in UK children's books. In changing 'reflecting' to 'representing' I seek to move beyond concern with sourcing representative texts to the work…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Childrens Literature
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