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Çigdem Bozdag; Yasemin Karakasoglu – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
Digital media provide easy access to media content in multiple languages from local, national, and transnational contexts. This accessibility of diverse content enables young people in the migration society to develop multilingual and transnational media repertoires: they have the option to continuously and strategically navigate between different…
Descriptors: Multilingual Materials, Foreign Countries, Media Education, Multimedia Materials
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Telesca, Lynne; Ehren, Barbara J.; Hahs-Vaughn, Debbie L.; Zygouris-Coe, Vassiliki I.; Kong, Anthony Pak-Hin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine whether sentence combining with an explicit metalinguistic approach in comparison to typical science instruction was effective in improving written expression and understanding of comparison/contrast in science for eighth-grade students who struggle with literacy. Method: Eighty-four eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Sentences, Transformational Generative Grammar, Middle School Students
Sagun, Mark Leomyr A.; De Vera, Presley V. – Online Submission, 2019
This study anchors on the linguistic theme of "Metalinguistic Awareness". The study analyzed this phenomenon as imbibed by high school students, and how it can be promoted by instructional tools, such as literary pieces that have gained predominant use in ESL and EFL teaching. The participants of this study are Grade 8 students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Kim, Eun Joo – English Teaching, 2019
Despite the recognized importance of morphological knowledge to literacy outcomes such as vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension, two of its subconstructs--morphological awareness and morphological processing--have received comparatively little attention. In response, the aim of the study reported here was to examine how the relationships…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Grade 10, Vocabulary Development
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Maluch, Jessica Tsimprea; Kempert, Sebastian – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
This study investigates the effect of bilingualism on learning English as a foreign language (L3), examining the impact of manner and sequence of bilingual acquisition and learning as well as language use practices in language minority children. With a sample of 1295 German eighth and ninth graders (bilingual: n = 456, monolingual: n = 839), we…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Language Minorities, English (Second Language)
Zhao, Jing – ProQuest LLC, 2011
A growing body of literature has provided evidence of the contribution of various metalinguistic skills to children's English literacy development; however, most of the studies focused on reading outcomes while spelling outcomes have been under-researched. Further, very few studies have been conducted to investigate if the results based on native…
Descriptors: Evidence, Spelling, Metalinguistics, Structural Equation Models
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Llach, M[a]. Pilar Agustin – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2010
The present paper intends to investigate the lexical gap-filling behaviour of primary and secondary Spanish learners of English. When there is a mismatch between the learners lexical knowledge and their communicative needs, then a lexical gap arises. Learners resort to different mechanisms to compensate for that lack of lexical knowledge.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Semantics, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)
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Evans, Michael; Fisher, Linda – Research Papers in Education, 2010
The last few years have seen the implementation of fundamental structural and curricular policy initiatives affecting the teaching of languages in schools in England. Several policy initiatives have been introduced by the government affecting the position and status of languages in schools, such as the development of foreign language teaching in…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction