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Hawkins, Eric – English: A World Language, 1992
Twenty years ago, Michael Halliday proposed a less isolationist approach to English teaching via "awareness of language." After debate, the idea won the support of two national committees on English teaching. The debate is reviewed and the question is asked: Will teachers of English and other languages learn to cooperate? (12 references)…
Descriptors: Cooperation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Teachers
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Hux, Karen; Stogsdill, Melinda – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1993
An adult with language-learning difficulty participated in an instruction program for remediating a morphological impairment. The program focused on metalinguistic information and the contrast of sentence pairs differing in single morphological features. Results confirmed the program's effectiveness in improving the accuracy of suffix usage in…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities
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Wierzbicka, Anna – Language Sciences, 1994
Argues that meaning is encoded not only in words but also in grammatical categories. These claims are illustrated and documented by analyzing one area of grammar in a number of different languages of the world: that area that is usually associated with the term of "evidentiality." (Contains 25 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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Berga, Miguel – Language Awareness, 1999
Presents a case in point to illustrate the use of subject-related artistic manifestations as an effective strategy to stimulate critical reading in English-as-a-Foreign-Language students of English literature. Suggests a step-by-step procedure that enables students to appropriate a poem without the usual over-deference toward second language in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Literature, Metalinguistics, Poetry
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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
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Brady, Alan; Shinohara, Yoko – System, 2000
Argues for the implementation of a transcultural approach to additional language learning to allow students and teachers to interdependently broaden their sociocultural identities within the context of critical language awareness and study with the goal of individuation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Metalinguistics, Second Language Instruction
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Hyland, Ken – Language Awareness, 2000
Examines the view that the items writers use to modify their claims in academic texts, commonly referred to as hedges and boosters, may actually be unnoticed by second language readers, a phenomenon known as the lexical invisibility hypothesis. Data is presented from a small retrospective think-aloud study that explores how 14 Cantonese first…
Descriptors: Cantonese, College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education
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Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Babel, 2001
Discusses the value of second language (L2) learning and suggests that students who learn an L2 in school can develop literacy skills faster than students who do not learn an L2. Examines the role of metalinguistic awareness, the role of language learning in literacy development, and literacy in its cultural context. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Language Role, Literacy
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McKay, Penny – Babel, 2000
This article presents parts two and three of a three-part article that explores the role that school language learning can play in the development of literacy, as well as the role that the teaching of literacy can play in language learning. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Literacy, Literacy Education
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Myhill, Debra – Language and Education, 2000
Describes the outcomes of an investigation into the misconceptions and difficulties encountered when learning grammar. The study is based on evidence collected from a class of 12-year-olds who were engaged in a work scheme focusing on grammar, and two cohorts of PGCE English students undertaking an intensive grammar course. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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Kasper, Loretta F.; Singer, Robert – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2001
Describes how one short silent film, "The Painted Lady," may be used to build language and content knowledge in English-as-a-second-language (ESL) courses. Provides a representative list of titles and corresponding content areas to assist instructors in their efforts to incorporate silent film into ESL courses. (SG)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Films, Instructional Innovation, Language Skills
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Savage, Robert; Blair, Rebecca; Rvachew, Susan – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
This article explores young children's facility in phonological awareness tasks requiring either the detection or the articulation of head, coda, onset, and rime subsyllabic units shared in word pairs. Data are reported from 70 nonreading children and 21 precocious readers attending preschools. Prereading children were able to articulate shared…
Descriptors: Phonology, Reading Skills, Preschool Children, Articulation (Speech)
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Littlewood, William; Danli, Li – Language Awareness, 2006
This paper explores the sociolinguistic awareness in English of tertiary level students in Hong Kong and Wuhan (Mainland China). The language data consisted of specific instances when a native speaker presenter made changes, in the course of oral delivery, to the written text of a conference paper that she had prepared in advance. Matched pairs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Majors (Students), Native Speakers
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Verhoeven, Ludo – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relations between early bilingualism and phonological awareness in a sample of 75 Turkish-Dutch bilingual kindergarten children living in The Netherlands. In a longitudinal design, the children's first (L1) and second (L2) language abilities were measured at the beginning and end of…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Phonology, Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness
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Moloney, Robyn – Babel, 2008
Language teachers are called upon to understand both the nature of students' intercultural competence and their own role in its development. Limited research attention has been paid to the relationship between the types of behaviour that language teachers model and the intercultural competence their students acquire. This article reports on a case…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Focus Groups, Language Teachers, Cultural Pluralism
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