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Woll, Nina – Language Awareness, 2019
While metalinguistic awareness (MLA) has been shown to play a crucial role in second and third language acquisition, a variety of methodological approaches point to the difficulty of operationalising the concept. The present study provides a critical analysis of MLA in relation to its measurement by means of a French-language test of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes
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Tribushinina, Elena; Berg, Zoë op ten; Karman, Sonja – Language Awareness, 2022
There is growing evidence that dyslexia may involve difficulty with implicit learning, which may hinder learners with dyslexia to acquire spelling skills in a foreign language through implicit instruction. Paradoxically, this is exactly how Dutch students with dyslexia learn English spelling at school. This research aims to determine if…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Xu, Jinfen; Fan, Yumei; Xu, Qingting – Language Awareness, 2019
This laboratory-based research investigated how 40 university EFL learners responded to their peers' linguistic errors and made their moment-to-moment decisions of whether or not to provide corrective feedback (CF) to their peers' errors in task-based peer interaction. Data from the transcripts of videotaped pair interaction and audio-taped…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
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Wrembel, Magdalena – Language Awareness, 2015
The paper focuses on an unexplored area of metalinguistic awareness in the acquisition of third language (L3) phonology, hereafter referred to as metaphonological awareness. It addresses the role of attention and noticing in input processing. The contribution constitutes a part of a larger scale project on metaphonological awareness in various…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Phonology, Polish, Multilingualism
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Yoshida, Reiko – Language Awareness, 2008
Corrective feedback (CF) has been investigated in relation to learners' error types that trigger CF and learners' responses to CF. These research findings generally suggest that recasts, the most frequently used type of CF, did not trigger learners' reformulation of their erroneous utterances very frequently. In these studies, however, teachers'…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Error Patterns, Japanese
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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