This paper describes the ways in which Mayan identities are ideologically constructed through language practices. It explores language ideologies based on the analysis of metalinguistic commentaries and code switching incidents in Momostenango, a K’iche’ Maya town in Guatemala. This study demonstrates how the K’iche’ Mayan language serves as an icon that portrays and as an index that marks Maya...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / Volume 18 / Special Issue 02 / April 2015, pp 227 235 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000552, Published online: 21 November 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728913000552 How to cite this article: YLVA FALK, CHRISTINA LINDQVIST and CAMILLA BARDEL (2015). The role of L1 explicit metalinguistic knowledge in L3 oral production at ...

A study investigated the use of specific error correction and writing instruction techniques in a composition course designed for foreign graduate students. Weekly in-class student essays on assigned topics were returned to them ungraded but containing explanations of grammar points, confusing vocabulary, content, and organization. A conscious effort was made to find praiseworthy elements in ev...

this study is a typological description of written formative feedback in an efl context in iran. twenty m.a. students of tefl participated in the study. they were required to summarize a scholarly article in each session on which the instructor would provide written corrective feedback (cf). written formative comments were extracted, coded, and categorized into various types, such as asking for...

The study examined two questions: (1) do the greater phonological awareness skills of billinguals affect reading performance; (2) to what extent do the orthographic characteristics of a language influence reading performance and how does this interact with the effects of phonological awareness. We estimated phonological metalinguistic abilities and reading measures in three groups of first grad...

Specific language impairment (SLI) has traditionally been characterized as a deficit of structural language (specifically grammar), with relative strengths in pragmatics. In this study, comprehensive assessment of production, comprehension, and metalinguistic judgment of referring expressions revealed that children with SLI have weaknesses in both structural and pragmatic language skills relati...

In this paper, methods for identification and delimitation of idiomatic expressions in large Web corpora are presented. The proposed methods are based on the observation that idiomatic expressions are sometimes accompanied by metalinguistic expressions, e.g. the word “proverbial”, the expression “as they say” or quotation marks. Even though the frequency of such idiom-related metalinguistic mar...

Poor comprehenders have intact word-reading skills but struggle specifically with understanding what they read. We investigated whether two metalinguistic skills, morphological and syntactic awareness, are specifically related to poor reading comprehension by including separate and combined measures of each. We identified poor comprehenders (n = 15) and average comprehenders (n = 15) in Grade 4...

Research in the field of vocabulary learning has shown that child L2 learners need to meet words again and again in new contexts in order to expand and deepen their word knowledge. In an instructional setting, cognitive processing is enhanced not only by the interplay between language use and metalinguistic reflection during classroom interaction but also by the activation and articulation of d...

In a model-based testing approach as well as for the verification of properties, B models provide an interesting solution. However, for industrial applications, the size of their state space often makes them hard to handle. To reduce the amount of states, an abstraction function can be used, often combining state variable elimination and domain abstractions of the remaining variables. This pape...