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Publication details [#30688]

Francis, Norbert. 2002. Literacy, Second Language Learning, and the Development of Metalinguistic Awareness: A Study of Bilingual Children's Perceptions of Focus on Form. Linguistics and Education 13 (3) : 373–404.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

form | L2-acquisition | literacy | metalinguistic awareness | writing

Language as a subject

Nahuatl | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0898-5898

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The following study presents results from an assessment of bilingual children's text editing and correction strategies across the elementary grades, and an evaluation of bilingual Spanish-Nahuatl childrens' performance in academic language and literacy tasks, as well as an assessment of their metalinguistic awareness.