An Examination of the Relationship between Metalinguistic Awareness and Second-language Proficiency of Adult Learners of French  

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Renou, Janet

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Awareness (Full Text) vol. 10 no. 4 (2001), page 248-267.
Fulltext: 10.4.248-267.pdf (258.11KB)

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This paper presents the results of a quantitative study investigating the relationship betweenmetalinguistic awareness (MLA) and second-language proficiency (L2) of 64 universitylevel learnersof French. The theoretical frameworkdriving this study posits that linguistic and metalinguistic proficiency are composed of two components – ‘analysed knowledge’ and ‘control’ over that knowledge (Bialystok & Ryan, 1985a). Learners’ performances on two grammaticality judgement tests and on a test of L2 proficiencywere examinedin the context of the demands made upon these twocomponents and according to whether the learners had been exposed to a communicative or grammar approach to L2 learning. Significant differences were found in learners’ performance depending upon task demands. Results showed a positive relationship between scores on the judgement tests, the operationalisation ofMLA, and the test of L2 proficiencyfor the entire sample.However, once learnerswere grouped according to learning approaches, therewas no longer a positive relationshipfor the communicative group.

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