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Metalinguistic Performance and Interlinguistic Competence [electronic resource] / by David Birdsong.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Springer Series in Language and Communication ; 25Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1989Edition: 1st ed. 1989Description: IX, 246 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783642741241
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 150 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1-990
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Contents:
I Points of Departure and Points of Contention -- 1 The Development of Metalinguistic Ability -- 2 Epistemological and Psychological Factors in Metalinguistic Performance -- 3 Theoretical Concerns -- II From Metalinguistic Performance to Interlinguistic Competence -- 4 Limitations and Potential of Metalinguistic Data in Second-Language Acquisition Theory -- 5 Negative Evidence in First- and Second-Language Acquisition -- 6 The Known and the Unknown in Metalinguistic Performance -- Appendix A -- References -- Name Index.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: It is often assumed that metalinguistic performance (e.g., detection of ambiguity, judgments of grammaticality) straightforwardly reflects linguistic knowledge. The inadequacies of such an assumption are explored in this volume, which documents the subtleties of the relationship between metalinguistic performance and knowledge of a second language (interlinguistic competence) from the perspectives of language acquisition theory and cognitive and developmental psychology. This thorough and up-to-date examination of metalinguistic phenomena offers insight to those involved in designing elicitation materials, analyzing and interpreting metalinguistic performance data, and applying such evidence to descriptions of interlanguage grammars and to second-language acquisition theory. The book also contributes constructively to the current debate concerning the role of metalinguistic variables in second-language acquisition, that is, how they ultimately affect success or failure in learning a second language.
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I Points of Departure and Points of Contention -- 1 The Development of Metalinguistic Ability -- 2 Epistemological and Psychological Factors in Metalinguistic Performance -- 3 Theoretical Concerns -- II From Metalinguistic Performance to Interlinguistic Competence -- 4 Limitations and Potential of Metalinguistic Data in Second-Language Acquisition Theory -- 5 Negative Evidence in First- and Second-Language Acquisition -- 6 The Known and the Unknown in Metalinguistic Performance -- Appendix A -- References -- Name Index.

It is often assumed that metalinguistic performance (e.g., detection of ambiguity, judgments of grammaticality) straightforwardly reflects linguistic knowledge. The inadequacies of such an assumption are explored in this volume, which documents the subtleties of the relationship between metalinguistic performance and knowledge of a second language (interlinguistic competence) from the perspectives of language acquisition theory and cognitive and developmental psychology. This thorough and up-to-date examination of metalinguistic phenomena offers insight to those involved in designing elicitation materials, analyzing and interpreting metalinguistic performance data, and applying such evidence to descriptions of interlanguage grammars and to second-language acquisition theory. The book also contributes constructively to the current debate concerning the role of metalinguistic variables in second-language acquisition, that is, how they ultimately affect success or failure in learning a second language.

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