Certain aspects of meta-linguistic awareness are known to be essential for bilingual children’s literacy acquisition. Phonological awareness is one of these skills. Beginning with a discussion of a pivotal developmental research model of control & analysis of cognitive skills in bilinguals, this review will discuss several studies that explored phonological awareness in bilinguals who knew diff...

Different theories of SLA offer conflicting views of the relationship between metalinguistic task performance and oral production. We examined this relationship with respect to the possessive determiners ‘his/her’in English. Learners’ oral production was elicited using a picture description task and described according to developmental stages;a parallelframework was developed to classifylearner...

This paper describes the outcomes of an investigation into the misconceptions and difficulties encountered when learning grammar. The study is based on evidence collected from a class of twelve-year-olds who were engaged upon a workscheme focusing on grammar,and two cohorts of PGCE English students undertaking an intensive grammar course. The analysis suggests that learning metalinguistic knowl...

This paper mainly reviews the features of second language acquisition, and influential factors on including influence first language, metalinguistic awareness, culture, along with why these are important. Analyzing how affect acquisition helps to find out what kind difficulties learners might encounter during process acquisition. Both external internal should be taken into account. Since all ov...

Just as it is possible to refer to any entity, concrete or abstract, in extralinguistic reality, it is also possible to refer to any linguistic entity, be that a phoneme, a word, a sentence, or any other linguistic object. Metalinguistic reference can be achieved in two ways, by means of ‘autonymous’ and ‘heteronymous’ mention (cf. Recanati 2000: 137). Autonymous mention is a matter of quotatio...

We build on the work by Peled and Bonotti to illuminate impact of linguistic relativity democratic debate. Bonotti’s focus is multilingual societies, their worry that ‘unconscious epistemic effects’ can undermine political reasoning between interlocutors who do not share same native tongue. Our article makes two contributions. First, we argue concerns about are just as relevant monolingual disc...

Transfer phenomena in Italian L3 by Dutch-speaking learners Consequences for didactics
 The present study investigates some aspects of the learning process as an two groups multilingual learners. In particular, through examination learners’ cross-linguistic transfer occurrences we reflect on didactic consequences working with mastering several L2s. results suggest that can be influenced an...

this study aimed at comparing the impact of two types of teacher feedback on iranian efl learners’ writing ability and their verb tense consistency in l2 writing. following the administration of a standardized language proficiency test (preliminary english test), sixty-two participants were selected and were randomly assigned to the control (direct-only correction) and experimental (direct meta...

A theoretical analysis of various aspects metacognitivism is carried out, special attention paid to the problem studying metacognitive strategies, which are a set certain actions aimed at planning, controlling cognitive processes, as well ratio their activity results and role in educational activities students. The features metalinguistic knowledge abilities considered. Different concepts were ...