Abstract Children’s increasing expertise in composition relies partly on word choice. Little is known about how children consider words as they write, their meta-lexical awareness, or choice of for writing. In this study, we investigate children’s one aspect metalinguistic which guides choices write. We describe child writers express awareness and might relate to writing achievement. view langu...

The present study addresses the research gap in studies on role of metalinguistic awareness and language dominance amongst EFL learners Saudi context. It empirically contributes to context its association phenomenon development learners. was conducted English Department Hail University, Arabia. Using systematic random sampling set at 95% level confidence with proper observance assumptions infer...

This study investigated understanding of language ambiguity as a source of individual differences in children’s reading comprehension skill, and the role of peer metalinguistic discussion in fostering comprehension improvement. Twenty-four 7to 9-year-old children worked in pairs to discuss and resolve ambiguities in joking riddles. Their reading comprehension increased significantly more than a...

In ‘‘Intuitions in Linguistics’’ (2006a) and Ignorance of Language (2006b) I took it to be Chomskian orthodoxy that a speaker’s metalinguistic intuitions are provided by her linguistic competence. I argued against this view in favor of the alternative that the intuitions are empirical theory-laden central-processor responses to linguistic phenomena. The concern about these linguistic intuitions...

A revised form of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory III (SCDI-III) was presented designed for Swedish speaking children aged 2 years 6 months–4 years 0 months with the objective to give a proxy measure of their language competence. The instrument contains a vocabulary checklist with 100 words, mainly predicates, from four areas; Food words, Body words, Mental words and Emotion...

A new approach called SKYSET (Synthetic Knowledge Yield Social Entities Translation) is proposed to validate completeness and to reduce ambiguity from written instructional documentation. SKYSET utilizes a quintuple set of standardized categories, which differs from traditional approaches that typically use triples. The SKYSET System defines the categories required to form a standard template f...