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Torregrossa, Jacopo ORCID: 0000-0001-7538-9725, Eisenbeiss, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0003-4975-3372 and Bongartz, Christiane . Boosting Bilingual Metalinguistic Awareness Under Dual Language Activation: Some Implications for Bilingual Education. Lang. Learn.. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1467-9922

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Abstract

Most studies on bilingual children's metalinguistic awareness assess metalinguistic awareness using monolingual tasks. This may not reflect how a bilingual's languages dynamically interact with each other in creating metalinguistic representations. We tested 33 Greek-Italian bilingual children (8-11 years) for metalinguistic awareness using acceptability-rating tasks in which they had to judge and explain grammatical errors. The tasks were in monolingual and bilingual modes in order to show how far metalinguistic awareness in Italian benefited from the activation of Greek. The participants exhibited better metalinguistic awareness abilities in Italian in the bilingual acceptability-rating task in which Greek was activated. The benefits of the bilingual mode were visible in the judgment and explanation of errors and were modulated by syntactic processing abilities in Italian, length of exposure to Italian, type of structure, and age. The results show that metalinguistic awareness can be shared across languages. We discuss the pedagogical implications of our findings.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Torregrossa, Jacopo UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-7538-9725 UNSPECIFIED Eisenbeiss, Sonja UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4975-3372 UNSPECIFIED Bongartz, Christiane UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-669853
DOI:	10.1111/lang.12552
Journal or Publication Title:	Lang. Learn.
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1467-9922
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language MORPHOLOGICAL AWARENESS; 2ND-LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; ENGLISH; CHILDRENS; PEDAGOGY Multiple languages Education & Educational Research; Linguistics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66985