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"Because it's a little more my language": Metalinguistic cognition in young monolingual and bilingual children
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Development of the Morphological Awareness Task for Singapore: a preregistration protocol ...
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Cross-linguistic differences in the associations between morphological awareness and reading in Spanish and English in young simultaneous bilinguals ...
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Exploring the Relationship Between Multilingual Learning Experience, Metalinguistic Knowledge, and Metalinguistic Awareness
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In: Studi di glottodidattica; V. 6, N. 1 (2021); 34 - 46 ; 1970-1861 (2021)
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Developing Language-specific Screening Tools: Assessing Phonological Awareness Skills in Urdu-English Bilingual Children
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The Additive Effects of Bilingualism on Third or Additional Language Acquisition: the Role of Metalinguistic Awareness ...
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Successes and Challenges of Syrian Refugee Children in Canada: Language and Literacy
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In: Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) (2018)
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Affordances for Language Awareness in a Middle School Transitional Classroom: Multi-Competent L1/L2 Users Under No Child Left Behind
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In: Gage-Serio, Ondine Angelique. (2014). Affordances for Language Awareness in a Middle School Transitional Classroom: Multi-Competent L1/L2 Users Under No Child Left Behind. UC Santa Cruz: Education. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5mz970cg (2014)
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Affordances for Language Awareness in a Middle School Transitional Classroom: Multi-Competent L1/L2 Users Under No Child Left Behind
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Affordances for Language Awareness in a Middle School Transitional Classroom: Multi-Competent L1/L2 Users Under No Child Left Behind
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This dissertation examines affordances for Language Awareness within a classroom serving English learners in a coastal California middle school under the policy context of No Child Left Behind. As an ecologically inspired account, this study contributes to understanding how students use and learn language in classroom settings. Affordances for Language Awareness represent possibilities available to students for accessing relevant information to make meaning of language within a classroom. Affordances for Language Awareness are opportunities for meaning making. That is, the learner seeks out meaning, while the classroom context (teacher, pedagogy, realia, classmates, etc.) provides the potential to give meaningful information. No one has conducted a similar study within the context of this policy environment-- a context in which students' and teachers' opportunities to draw on their repertoire of linguistic, cultural, and intellectual resources in classroom and school settings have been drastically constrained. For this reason, a study of affordances for Language Awareness can offer a lens on how a particular policy context may impact classroom language learning. Taking an ecological perspective on bilingual learners, defined as multi-competent L1/L2 learners, the research questions in this study focus on how affordances for Language Awareness are constructed within the school context by multi-competent L1/L2 users. A second goal of this study is to understand what factors mediate potential affordances for Language Awareness. A third goal of this study is to consider how the broader ecology of the school, district, state, and federal government language education policy under No Child Left Behind influenced the construction of affordances for Language Awareness. To address the research questions within an ecological perspective on language learning, a qualitative design was employed. In drawing on qualitative methods, the researcher collected classroom interaction data focused on episodes of meaningful exchanges and case study data which enabled the researcher to understand the range of student practices through which affordances for Language Awareness occurred. The unit of analysis in this study is Language Awareness Related Episodes (LAREs), defined as episodes of conversational exchanges containing ideas contributing to students' Language Awareness in the construction of meaning. The LAREs were inductively coded, revealing four emerging categories. Further examination of these categories within the individual practices of the case students found that affordances for Language Awareness occurred as bi-directional semiotic activities between students and their teacher while exploring classroom texts, which were contextualized through multi-sensory and multi-modal mediating factors (e.g. listening to text, listening to peers' response to text, text projected on board, keeping marginal notes, visual imagery, music and film). Findings showed that students most frequently engaged in affordances for Language Awareness while constructing understanding around metalinguistic elements such as morphology and polysemy. The second most frequent finding was students engaged in analeptic discourse exploring shared experiences that allowed for affordances for Language Awareness. A less frequent and third finding was that students engaged in affordances for Language Awareness through prolepsis or co-constructing inference in texts guided by instructional language puzzles. The least frequent occurrence was students who engaged in affordances for Language Awareness through register shifts. The case study findings showed that students demonstrated a range of language practices within the classroom, including (a) independently seeking out opportunities, (b) engaging in dynamic exchanges with classmates and the teacher, and (c) being drawn into the community of learners by peers and the teacher in order to marshal relevant resources for gaining affordances for Language Awareness. While the policy context situating this study was shown to be disruptive, constraining affordances for Language Awareness, this study found that the instructor was able to negotiate policy demands to support students' classroom engagement allowing for affordances for Language Awareness to occur.The implications of this study are that teachers can resist the dominant discourse supporting classroom practices for students to engage in affordances for Language Awareness through (a) their teaching practices and (b) supporting students to draw on their heritage language resources. Another implication of this study is that classroom practices must allow for the various ways in which students may experience affordances for Language Awareness. A further implication for policy makers is the need to reconsider how drawing on multiple language resources may support affordances for Language Awareness for both bilingual development and classroom learning.
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Bilingualism; Education; Language Awareness; middle school; multi-competence; NCLB; Second Language Acquisition
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URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8cr144wg
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Processes Underlying Syntactic Control: Evaluating Linguistically Diverse Children
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In: Dissertations (2013)
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ELL Prereaders' Script Awareness: How Do They Know if a Script is English?
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The Effect Of Awareness And Explicit Knowledge Of Mother Tongue Grammar On The Learning Of Foreign Language Grammar ...
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The Effect Of Awareness And Explicit Knowledge Of Mother Tongue Grammar On The Learning Of Foreign Language Grammar ...
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The bilingual acquisition of compound words and its relation to reading skills
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Bilingual children's' writing: Self-correction and revision of written narratives
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In: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~nf4/Bilingualism/Bilingual Children%27s writing.pdf (2005)
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Bilingual Children’s Phonological Awareness: The Effect of Articulation Training
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In: Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, Vol 31, Iss 3 (2004) (2004)
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Fostering Second Language Development in Young Children: Principles and Practices
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In: McLaughlin, Barry. (1995). Fostering Second Language Development in Young Children: Principles and Practices. Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence. UC Berkeley: Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/23s607sr (1995)
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ELL Prereaders' Script Awareness: How Do They Know if a Script is English?
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