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Smith, Carol; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – 1980
Thirty-six three and four year olds were given six language-related judgment tasks to identify different features of their metalinguistic awareness. Half of the items in each task were correct, half incorrect. Children exhibited metalinguistic awareness by a criterion of 90% or better correct answers on a task. The easiest task was based on…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Metacognition
Clyne, Michael – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1989
A discussion focusing on the concept of metalinguistic awareness, particularly in bilingual children, precedes a discussion of metalinguistic awareness and its potential relationship with the cognitive advantages of bilingualism. The metalinguistic history and metalinguistic awareness of a subject, bilingual in German and English, are highlighted.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Development, English
Ricciardelli, Lina A., And Others – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1989
Ten metalinguistic tasks of intellectual development were studied in five- and six-year-old children using factor analysis. Results suggested that metalinguistic awareness can be viewed as developing in association with other intellectual activities, and that it can be conceived as a unitary construct. (55 references) (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Tests, Factor Analysis, Grade 1
Goodman, Yetta M. – 1980
Designed to reveal children's awareness of print and use of contextual clues and to discover their metalinguistic awareness, language use, and attitudes toward reading and writing, this instrument consists of six tasks. The first three, print awareness tasks, present familiar labels and signs with different degrees of contextuality. The fourth and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Context Clues, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
Download full textHoppe, Ronald A.; Kess, Joseph F. – 1982
The acquisition of the metalinguistic abilities involved in ambiguity detection and resolution was studied with children. It is suggested that metalinguistic abilities may serve as potential test measures for facility in learning a second language. School children (ages 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13) were tested for their ability to detect ambiguous…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Child Language, Comprehension, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedVerhoeven, Ludo T. – Second Language Research, 1989
Investigation of the monitoring behavior of Turkish children speaking Dutch as a second language found that subjects' use repairs increased or decreased with a certain age. A positive relationship was found between monitoring use and subjects' cognitive skills and second language proficiency. (27 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Dutch
