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Publication details [#57940]

Gutiérrez, Xavier. 2013. Metalinguistic knowledge, metalingual knowledge, and proficiency in L2 Spanish. Language Awareness 22 (2) : 176–191.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language proficiency | metalinguistic awareness | second language acquisition | technical language | university

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article explores the development of metalinguistic and metalingual knowledge in adult university-level learners of Spanish as L2, and their link with L2 proficiency. The examined knowledge seemed to match written but not oral L2 proficiency measures.