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Producing Bilinguals through Immersion Education: Development of Metalinguistic Awareness
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Bialystok, Ellen; Peets, Kathleen F.; Moreno, Sylvain – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014
This study examined metalinguistic awareness in children who were becoming bilingual in an immersion education program. The purpose was to determine at what point in emerging bilingualism the previously reported metalinguistic advantages appear and what types of metalinguistic tasks reveal these developmental differences. Participants were 124…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Metalinguistics, Immersion Programs, Syntax
Development of Speech Perception and Speech Production Abilities in Adult Second Language Learners.
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Gass, Susan – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1984
Results of a study of speech production and speech perception by adult learners of English indicate the main differences between native-speaker and nonnative speaker perception and production. Methodological issues are raised relating to the comparison of the two, and the need for further research to evaluate and refine the relationship between…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Communication Research, Comprehension, English (Second Language)
The Acquisition of /r/ and /l/ by Japanese Learners of English: Evidence That Speech Production Can Precede Speech Perception.
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Sheldon, Amy; Strange, Winifred – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1982
Discusses difficulties in perception of English /r/ and /l/ and concludes the error pattern is not predictable on the basis of contrastive phonological analysis but might be the result of acoustic-phonetic factors. (EKN)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)