Subject-Specific and Task-Specific Characteristics of Metalinguistic Awareness in Bilingual Children.

Galambos, Sylvia Joseph; Hakuta, Kenji

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Publication Date: 1988

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Subject-Specific and Task-Specific Characteristics of Metalinguistic Awareness in Bilingual Children.

Galambos, Sylvia Joseph; Hakuta, Kenji

Applied Psycholinguistics, v9 n2 p141-62 Jun 1988

Investigates the relationship between bilingualism and metalinguistic awareness in Puerto Rican Spanish- and English-speaking children. Findings indicate that native language proficiency, as well as the degree of bilingualism, affect metalinguistic awareness, and that these effects interacted with the types of items in the metalinguistic tasks. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Usage, Metacognition, Puerto Ricans, Second Language Learning, Spanish

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