Publications

Publication details [#30415]

Ranta, Leila and Joanna White. 2002. Examining the Interface between Metalinguistic Task Performance and Oral Production in a Second Language. Language Awareness 11 (4) : 259–290.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L2-acquisition | metalanguage | orality | task-dependency of processing

Language as a subject

English, Canadian | French, Canadian

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0965-8416

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines the relationship between metalinguistic task performance and oral production with respect to the possessive determiners 'his/her' in English. Two classes of French-speaking children in an intensive English second language programme in Quebec participated in the study.