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Deacon, S. Helene; Wade-Woolley, Lesly; Kirby, John – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Achieving biliteracy is a remarkable accomplishment, and it is important to understand the range of factors that permit its successful realization. The authors investigated a factor known to affect reading in monolingual children that has received little attention in the second-language literature: morphological awareness. The researchers tracked…
Descriptors: Literacy, French, Morphology (Languages), Immersion Programs
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Lazaruk, Wally – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2007
A survey of research on French as a second language (FSL) education in Canada suggests that French immersion (FI) students enjoy significant linguistic, academic, and cognitive benefits. We organize our summary of the advantages of FI around these three themes, comparing students' proficiency in French and English across various FI programs, and…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Creative Thinking
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Leikin, Mark; Hagit, Even Zur – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
This study employed the masked-priming paradigm [Forster and Davis (J Exp Psychol bearn Mem Cogn 10: 680-698, 1984).], along with traditional methods of evaluation of morphological awareness and phonological processing, to obtain a finer-grained picture of the relationship between morphological abilities and reading in adult dyslexic readers.…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Morphology (Languages), Adults, Cues
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Kurvers, Jeanne; Uri, Helene – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
This study explores the ability to access word boundaries of pre-school children, using an on-line methodology (Karmiloff-Smith, Grant, Sims, Jones, & Cockle (1996). "Cognition, 58", 197-219.), which has hardly been used outside English-speaking countries. In a cross-linguistic study in the Netherlands and Norway, four and…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Metalinguistics, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children
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Swami, Jasti Appa – TESL-EJ, 2008
This article evaluates the efficacy of explicit genre-based instruction by sensitizing the ESL learners to the concept of genre. The main questions addressed are: How does sensitizing ESL learners to the rhetorical move structure of a genre, the communicative purposes of these moves, and linguistic features that realize these moves help them to…
Descriptors: Job Application, Language Attitudes, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Cameron, Deborah – Language Sciences, 1997
Discusses the tradition of argument about what forms of metalinguistic discourse are valid, useful, and significant in the era of modern Western linguistics, with particular reference to the argument between linguistic science and prescriptivism. The article emphasizes that linguistic norms are open to challenge and change about what their nature…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Discourse Analysis, Language Styles, Language Usage
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James, Carl – Language Awareness, 1996
Revives Eric Hawkins' idea of a language "trivium" where language awareness activities should fill the space between the learner's two languages. Draws a distinction between awareness and consciousness of language and suggests that cross-linguistic relationships are a major source of input salience strengthening, due to bilinguals'…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing
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Derwing, Tracey M.; Rossiter, Marian J.; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen – Language Awareness, 2002
Native and nonnative speakers of English listened to a nonnative speaker's reading of well-formed sentences and those containing grammatical errors of three types. Identified errors were judged for gravity on a 5-point scale. In a second experiment, subjects identified error types and rated them for gravity and annoyance in an aural task; they…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Grammar, Metalinguistics
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VanPatten, Bill – Language Awareness, 2002
Reviews the nature of processing instruction (PI) and the research that has been conducted on it since 1993. Concludes that Batstone's (2002a) analysis and critique of PI is unfounded and that PI captures his given-to-new principle via the feedback learners get during instruction. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Feedback, Learning Processes, Metalinguistics, Prior Learning
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Schultz, Renate A. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2002
Examines to what extent, if at all, grammar instruction fosters or accelerates language acquisition. Presents a study investigating the acquisition of syntactic or morphological structures in 340 students learning German as a foreign language. The results are discussed. (AS)
Descriptors: German, Grammar, Metalinguistics, Morphology (Languages)
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Meyer, Charles – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1989
Notes that, although linguistics has had little influence on composition pedagogy, the study of functional grammar or linguistic performance (how language is actually used) is of direct value to composition theory. Offers an extended discussion of a functional approach to punctuation instruction, and proposes a functional approach in other areas…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Language Usage, Linguistics
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Braine, Martin D. S.; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1993
Examined thematic and grammatical role categories accessible to preschool children and how access to these categories changes with age. Results of three experiments with children and adults confirmed the psychological reality of certain semantic categories, and provided evidence suggesting a transition in the prominence of semantic relative to…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Early Childhood Education
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Backscheider, Andrea A.; Gelman, Susan A. – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Three experiments examined the ability of 60 3-year-old children's ability to select homonym pairs and the extent to which they realized that homonyms represent 2 different categories. Results confirm that children have the metalinguistic skills necessary to identify homonym pairs and to realize they represent two different categories, suggesting…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Mapping, Language Research
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Clark, Romy; And Others – Language and Education: An International Journal, 1991
The notion of critical linguistics is examined, and it is argued that the diverse objectives usually given for Language Awareness programs appear to be given desocializing weightings in actual materials. Ways that Critical Language Awareness can be incorporated into a family history writing project are described. (20 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Critical Thinking, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Sridhar, S. N. – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1993
Several different conceptualizations of applied linguistics are evaluated, ranging from "applications of linguistic theory" to alternative models for studying language that extend and complement generative grammar as a theory of language. It is shown that they imply substantive differences in goals, methods, and priorities of language study. (30…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Definitions, Generative Grammar, Language Processing
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