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Aspects of Language Awareness Used in Some Workplace ESL Programmes.

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Wales, M. L. – Language Awareness, 1993

Some teaching and learning that occurred in the English on the Job Project, a long-term English-as-a-Second-Language program for immigrant employees in Australia, is reported. Language awareness, which was intentionally exploited or developed to increase second-language (L2) proficiency, had a significant positive effect on L2 development.…

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Language Proficiency

Metalinguistic Awareness in Dutch Immigrants.

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de Bot, Kees – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1992

Data are presented on some aspects of metalinguistic awareness in Dutch adults who emigrated to Australia at least 25 years ago. The findings show that the migrants do not differ significantly from a control group in the Netherlands, suggesting that first-language metalinguistic skills are extremely resistant to attrition. (Contains nine…

Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries