Publications

Publication details [#41153]

James, Carl. 1999. Language Awareness: Implications for the Language Curriculum. Language, Culture and Curriculum 12 (1) : 94–115.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | crosslinguistic perspective | language awareness | language teaching

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This article outlines the history of the 'British' Language Awareness (LA) movement, defines Language Awareness, compares Language Awareness with the complementary and parallel enterprise of Consciousness Raising, and cites recent developments in the areas of bilingualism and 'new' Contrastive Linguistics in order to define LA's cross-linguistic dimension.