The Interplay of Language Awareness and Bilingual Writing Abilities in Heritage Language Speakers

This paper investigates how language awareness influences the writing abilities of bilingual heritage speakers. The study includes 175 9th and 10th graders with Italian, Greek, or Turkish as their L1 German an early L2. analysis is based on a corpus narrative argumentative texts in L2 test to explore semantic, pragmatic, textual knowledge that was administered both languages. We found students’ languages were highly interdependent there significant correlation between achieving high scores equally (or even higher) test. results further point metalinguistic abilities. However, higher text level language, which shows this are more dependent than schooling. Moreover, differences respective groups different school types. Based these results, it argued fostering ought be implemented intensively classroom.