How does abstract structure emerge during language learning? On some accounts, children’s early syntax emerges from direct generalizations from particular lexical items, while on others, syntactic structure is acquired independently and follows its own timetable. Progress on differentiating these views requires detailed developmental data. Using parental reports of vocabulary and grammar abilit...

Indirect written feedback is crucial to be conducted since errors are unavoidable in the process of writing. However, many studies have been undertaken university contexts. Thus, this qualitative case study was carried out examine a teacher's indirect practices senior high school context. The data were obtained from observations, document analysis, and semi-structured interviews through purposi...

What I hope to achieve in this paper is some rather deeper understanding of the semantic and pragmatic properties of utterances which are said to involve the phenomenon of metalinguistic negation. According to Larry Horn, who has been primarily responsible for drawing our attention to it, this is a special non-truthfunctional use of the negation operator, which can be glossed as 'I object to U'...

Abstract In this paper I argue that metalinguistic negotiations are not as common David Plunkett and Timothy Sundell assume. They make two related controversial claims: the claim speakers don’t know what they say directly communicate contents. These claims generate challenges metalinguistic-negotiation view should meet. Firstly, it clarify why oblivious to saying communicating, secondly, explai...

The relationship between bilingualism and metalinguistic awareness was explored in Puerto Rican Spanishand English-speaking children. All subjects were from low-income backgrounds and were enrolled in a transitional bilingual education program in the United States. Two longitudinal studies were conducted. The first study examined the abilities to note and correct ungrammatical sentences in Span...