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Peer reviewedGalambos, Sylvia Joseph; Hakuta, Kenji – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Investigates the relationship between bilingualism and metalinguistic awareness in Puerto Rican Spanish- and English-speaking children. Findings indicate that native language proficiency, as well as the degree of bilingualism, affect metalinguistic awareness, and that these effects interacted with the types of items in the metalinguistic tasks.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
