metalinguistic awareness
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awareness
noun[U]
uk/əˈweə.nəs/us/əˈwer.nəs/
knowledge that something exists, or understanding of a situation or subject at the present time based on information ...
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Although these results must, to some extent, reflect themetalinguisticawarenessof the respondents, no attempt was made to evaluatemetalinguisticawarenesssystematically.
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Previous research has indicated ways in which bilingualism affects development inmetalinguisticawareness, literacy, and cognitive abilities, including nonlinguistic ones.
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He concludes that immersion students tend to outperform their monolingual peers in literacy,metalinguisticawarenessand an analytical approach to language.
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It is believed that symbol substitution tasks are closely related to both concept formation andmetalinguisticawareness.
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The effects of learning two languages on levels ofmetalinguisticawareness.
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All of these issues must be addressed when identifying the effects of bilingualism onmetalinguisticawareness.
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The effects of learning two languages onmetalinguisticawareness.
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One of them,metalinguisticawareness(or explicit knowledge of the language), is one of the best-documented differences between bilinguals and monolinguals.
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Rethinkingmetalinguisticawareness: representing and accessing knowledge about what counts as a word.
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However, conceptually, the direct link here would appear to be between borrowing patterns andmetalinguisticawareness, as reflected in this particular academic language activity.
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I argue that gender effects have been missed or misinterpreted largely because the notion ofmetalinguisticawarenesshas not been thoroughly theorized in sociolinguistics.
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The oral language skill ofmetalinguisticawarenessis a component of emergent literacy that has a wellestablished connection to literacy learning.
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These results place an important limit on the attempt to argue that bilingualism alters children's development ofmetalinguisticawareness.
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The performance of the children on the various measures ofmetalinguisticawarenessand vocabulary are reported separately.
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In none of these three subcategories ofmetalinguisticawarenessdo bilingual children exhibit a uniform and consistent advantage over monolinguals.
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Investigations on the role that context plays in determining any meaning lead us directly to the issue of the relationship between literacy andmetalinguisticawareness.
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However, the one-to-one mapping account has not been spelled out in detail, and it may not requiremetalinguisticawareness.
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This task seems to require children to understand the relationship between words and their referents, and thus to requiremetalinguisticawareness.
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More general research on the development ofmetalinguisticawarenessshould help to further distinguish these two accounts.
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