Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition - Paperback

by Karen Roehr-Brackin (Author)

In the first volume to present an in-depth overview of metalinguistics as it relates to SLA, Roehr-Brackin discusses metalinguistic awareness in both contexts of child and adult learners, addresses the relationship between metalinguistic awareness and metalanguage, and outlines the methods that can be used to measure metalinguistic awareness.

Author Biography

Karen Roehr-Brackin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK. She works in the area of second language acquisition. Her research interests include explicit and implicit knowledge and learning, as well as the role of individual learner differences such as language learning aptitude, working memory and cognitive/learning style in adult and child second language learning.