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Tasmanian Education Dept., Hobart (Australia). – 1982
Intended for teachers in Tasmania, this booklet focuses on guidelines for developing a language program for young children. Chapters are entitled: How Language Competence Grows; Language, Thought and Feelings Are Independent; The Child's Language Development Depends on Our Responses; and Growth of Understanding. The philosophy presented in the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Muikku-Werner, Pirkko – 1998
In recent years, language awareness has been a popular topic of lively discussion. Both linguists and language teachers have shown interest in consciousness raising that has been considered a means of establishing motivated and effective language learning. Most studies have approached the subject from the viewpoint of foreign languages, and less…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Estonian, Finnish, Foreign Countries
Pang, Elizabeth S.; Kamil, Michael L. – Mid Atlantic Lab for Student Success, 2004
Demographic trends indicate that in the 21st century, second-language issues in early literacy development will remain a pressing concern. According to the 1990 U.S. census, over 6.3 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 spoke a language other than English at home (Crawford, 2001). This number has grown to over 9.7 million as estimated…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Teacher Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods

Berry, Roger – Language Awareness, 1997
Describes a study investigating the knowledge of metalinguistic terminology in college students in Hong Kong and compares this knowledge to their English teachers' estimation of that knowledge and desire to use such terminology. Findings reveal wide differences between learners in their knowledge of terminology and wide discrepancies between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)

Thornbury, Scott – ELT Journal, 1997
Rehabilitates teaching techniques that exploit both the meaning-driven and form-focused potential of reformulation and reconstruction tasks in English-as-a-Second-Language classes. Argues that the potential for focusing learners' attention on form has received little attention in instruction models. (30 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, English (Second Language), Feedback, Grammar

Blackmore, A. M.; Pratt, Chris – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1997
Used a one-year longitudinal study to examine the extent to which grammatical awareness in preschool predicted reading independently of preschool general verbal skills, phonological awareness, and word recognition. Found that, independently of other skills, grammatical awareness predicted word recognition and pseudoword recoding, but not reading…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Encoding (Psychology), Grade 1, Grammar

Roth, Froma P.; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1996
Review of the contribution of various oral language abilities to early reading performances found that, although phonemic awareness was the best predictor of early reading skills, metasyntactic ability also often accounted for significant variance. Once children acquire initial decoding skills, narrative discourse and other metalinguistic skills…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Language Skills, Linguistics
Mohammed, Abdulmoneim Mahmoud – IRAL, 1996
Discusses the consensus among language teachers that the teaching of grammar helps second language learners develop linguistic competence as part of communicative competence. The article argues that pedagogical grammar can be made less formal by keeping metalinguistic terms, concepts, and analysis at a minimal level. (45 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Concept Formation, Grammar, Learning Processes

Sin, King-Kui; Roebuck, Derek – Language & Communication, 1996
Discusses the difficulties inherent in creating an authentic Chinese text of the legislation of Hong Kong. The article argues that the real difficulty lies in the need for a change in perspective, and once this change occurs, what remains is the technicality of linguistic manipulation. "Law" Chinese will best develop out of the English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Change Strategies, Chinese, Colonialism

Moreno, Ana I. – English for Specific Purposes, 1997
Sought evidence for or against the assumption that significant intercultural variation exists in the rhetorical preferences of national cultures through contrastive analysis of research articles in English (n=36) and Spanish (n=36) on business and economics written by native speakers of each language. (45 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, English

Leow, Ronald P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000
Investigates the effects of awareness, or lack thereof, on 32 adult second or foreign language learners' subsequent intake and written production of targeted Spanish morphological forms. Think-aloud protocol data were used to measure awareness or lack of it, and morphological learning was assessed by the learners' performances on two postexposure…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Metalinguistics

Weber, Rose-Marie – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1983
An exploration of the increasingly important role of linguistics in literacy research and instruction reviews literature on reading comprehension, written language, orthography, metalinguistics, classroom language use, reading disabilities, native tongues, nonstandard dialects, bilingual education, adult literacy, and second-language reading. (86…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education

Dreher, Mariam Jean; Zenge, Sara D. – Journal of Educational Research, 1990
Results from a longitudinal study indicated that first grade metalinguistic awareness was a statistically significant predictor of students' (N=65) reading comprehension performance in both third and fifth grades, even when academic aptitude was in the regression equation. (Author/IAH)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Grade 1, Grade 3, Grade 5

Luo, Cheng – Mosaic: A Journal for Language Teachers, 1994
Addresses the need for a more balanced approach in teaching observable culture (music, letters, and arts) and nonobservable culture (belief, behavior, and values) associated with the second language learning process by looking at the celebration of the Chinese New Year. Topics discussed include the Chinese Zodiac, household preparations and social…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Chinese Americans, Chinese Culture, Context Effect

Piper, Alison – Language Awareness, 1994
This study examined 29 second-year undergraduate students of Spanish using a self-access learning environment for the first time, focusing on their language attitudes and learning strategies. The results show that, even as modern languages majors, the students possessed a model of language and strategies for learning that were significantly…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Improvement, Higher Education, Independent Study