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Cross-Linguistic Awareness of Adult L3 Learners of English: A Focus on Metalinguistic Reflections and Proficiency
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Angelovska, Tanja – Language Awareness, 2018
This study is concerned with finding out how L3 (third language) learners recognize and make conscious use of cross-linguistic similarities and differences and whether their metalinguistic reflections are in correlation with their proficiency. Written text productions of thirteen L3 learners of English, aged 20-25, at different L3 levels (A2, B1,…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Correlation, Reflection, Foreign Countries
"It's Vocabulary"/"It's Gender": Learner Awareness and Incidental Learning
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Bell, Phillipa K.; Collins, Laura – Language Awareness, 2009
Research has shown that second language (L2) learners that become aware of linguistic features during grammar-based tasks are better able to process these features on a posttest compared to learners that do not focus on these features. However, much L2 input does not come in the form of grammar-based tasks. This study investigates whether learners…
Descriptors: Nouns, Protocol Analysis, Metalinguistics, Incidental Learning
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
Language Awareness of Non-Native Speakers in the Business Field.
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Pinto dos Santos, Valeria Branco Moreira – Language Awareness, 1994
Examined the language awareness and attitudes of five Brazilian business professionals who used English as a Foreign Language (EFL), finding that the more exposed to sociocultural aspects of a language an EFL speaker was, the more he or she was able to perceive and talk about language as a whole. (16 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Business Communication, Business English
Learner Awareness of Recasts in Classroom Interaction: A Case Study of an Adult EFL Student's Second Language Learning.
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Nabei, Toshiyo; Swain, Merrill – Language Awareness, 2002
Presents a case study of an adult Japanese learner's second language (L2) learning through her teacher's recasts in an English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) classroom in Japan. Investigated the relationship between the student's awareness of feedback and her L2 learning. Findings suggest recasting is a complex verbal behavior influenced by the…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Classroom Communication, English (Second Language)
Variations in Native Speaker Competence: Implications for First-Language Teaching.
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Chipere, Ngoni – Language Awareness, 2001
Examined whether variations in adult native speaker performance arise from variations in working memory capacity or variations in procedural grammatical competence. Three groups of 18-year-old native speakers of English were tested on comprehension and recall of English complex noun phrase constructions. Results support the view that variations in…
Descriptors: Adults, Communicative Competence (Languages), English, English (Second Language)