TY - JOUR
T1 - Awareness of language
T2 - literacy and second language learning of Spanish in Mexico
AU - Chireac, Silvia Maria
AU - Francis, Norbert
AU - McClure, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/8/18
Y1 - 2019/8/18
N2 - This report presents findings from a follow-up exploratory study of the development of writing ability in an attempt to identify key component skills and competencies for elementary school literacy learners, grades 2nd, 4th and 6th. The first evaluation consisted in scoring first draft narrative texts for coherence, the second, an assessment of effective self-correction strategies. These two measures were compared to the results of a third test, of metalinguistic awareness related to children’s ability to distinguish between the two languages that they know, and those of a fourth measure of orthographic knowledge. Participants were bilingual elementary school students from an indigenous community in Central Mexico. Results point to important opportunities in future research for the understanding of how metalinguistic awareness is related to literacy learning.
AB - This report presents findings from a follow-up exploratory study of the development of writing ability in an attempt to identify key component skills and competencies for elementary school literacy learners, grades 2nd, 4th and 6th. The first evaluation consisted in scoring first draft narrative texts for coherence, the second, an assessment of effective self-correction strategies. These two measures were compared to the results of a third test, of metalinguistic awareness related to children’s ability to distinguish between the two languages that they know, and those of a fourth measure of orthographic knowledge. Participants were bilingual elementary school students from an indigenous community in Central Mexico. Results point to important opportunities in future research for the understanding of how metalinguistic awareness is related to literacy learning.
KW - Metalinguistic awareness
KW - Spanish
KW - bilingual awareness
KW - literacy
KW - second language writing
KW - spelling
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U2 - 10.1080/13670050.2017.1294143
DO - 10.1080/13670050.2017.1294143
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85013668935
SN - 1367-0050
VL - 22
SP - 675
EP - 688
JO - International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
JF - International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
IS - 6
ER -