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Differential Effects of Metalinguistic Awareness Components in Early Foreign Language Acquisition of English Vocabulary and Grammar
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Kieseier, Teresa; Thoma, Dieter; Vogelbacher, Markus; Holger, Hopp – Language Awareness, 2022
Metalinguistic awareness (MLA) is a predictor of adult foreign language (FL) learning in instructed settings. Following Bialystok and Ryan (1985) two-component model of MLA, we distinguish ML analysis as the ability to compare and select language items from ML control as the ability to detect and manipulate rule-based linguistic patterns. So far,…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Do Minority-Language and Majority-Language Students Benefit from Pedagogical Translanguaging in Early Foreign Language Development?
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Hopp, Holger; Kieseier, Teresa; Jakisch, Jenny; Sturm, Sarah; Thoma, Dieter – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This paper reports findings of a project on pedagogical translanguaging (PTL) among 128 fourth-grade students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in German primary schools. Over a period of six months, 20% of lesson time in EFL classes was devoted to multilingualism involving students' minority languages. In a control group pre-post-test…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Degree of Multilingualism, Code-Switching and Intensity of Target Language Contact Predict Pragma-Linguistic Awareness in an English as a Foreign Language Context
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Trebits, Anna – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
This paper investigates the relationship between multilingualism, code-switching, target language contact and pragmatic and grammatical awareness in learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Participants (N = 144) were university students enrolled in English language courses at a German university. The study employed a cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Integrating Multilingualism into the Early Foreign Language Classroom: Empirical and Teaching Perspectives
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Hopp, Holger; Jakisch, Jenny; Sturm, Sarah; Becker, Carmen; Thoma, Dieter – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
We report on a research project that develops and measures the efficacy of multilingual teaching approaches in the early English foreign language (FL) classroom in Germany. Although there is an abundance of programmatic calls for integrating minority and other languages the students speak in FL teaching, there are few materials and methods for…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Humor Facilitates Text Comprehension: Evidence from Eye Movements
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Ferstl, Evelyn C.; Israel, Laura; Putzar, Lisa – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
One crucial property of verbal jokes is that the punchline usually contains an incongruency that has to be resolved by updating the situation model representation. In the standard pragmatic model, these processes are considered to require cognitive effort. However, only few studies compared jokes to texts requiring a situation model revision…
Descriptors: Humor, Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Gender Differences
Language Awareness of German Pupils.
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Green, Peter S.; Hecht, Karlheinz – Language Awareness, 1993
The aims, content, and methods of language awareness in the German "Gymnasium" curriculum are presented and compared with other, especially English, models. Pupils' command of metalanguage is also reported, including results of a test to assess their level of language awareness and its relationship to linguistic competence. (29…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Language Processing