Publications

Publication details [#55510]

Roehr, Karen and Gabriela Adela Gánem-Gutiérrez. 2011. Use of L1, metalanguage, and discourse markers: L2 learners' regulation during individual task performance. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 21 (3) : 297–318.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L1-acquisition | L2-acquisition | metalanguage | problem solving | task-dependency of processing

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

The results of this study confirm the pedagogical worth of metalanguage and L1 use (in casu English) to empower L2 learners (of Spanish) to investigate form-meaning relationships and surmount specific language problems during task performance.