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...

This paper examines how primary aged children with reading difficulties attend to, understand and act upon different types of feedback within a digital literacy game. A systematic structured video analysis twenty-six children's game play was carried out focussing on moments where made an error were followed by in-game feedback. Our findings show that benefited from outcome feedback, which suppo...

Metalinguistic awareness is the ability to attend to, and reflect upon, the properties of a language. Metalinguistic awareness is often assessed using tasks of phonological and syntactical awareness (see, e.g., Bialystok & Herman, 1999; Bowey, 1990; McGuiness, 2005, for reviews). Tests of phonological awareness usually require the analysis of sounds in words, whereas tests of syntactical awaren...

The Role of the ‘Feedback’ Function in Moodle Activities. development online language teaching has accelerated over last few years, and there is now an increasingly urgent need to deepen our knowledge functions available platforms. aim this presentation highlight potential function provided by platform. contribution deals with Italian courses offered Language Centre University Perugia, a view s...

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...