BILINGUALISM AND DEVELOPMENT OF META-LINGUISTIC AWARENESS

被引:155
作者
CUMMINS, J
机构
[1] University of Alberta, Edmonton
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D O I
10.1177/002202217892001
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Tasks designed to assess children's level of metalinguistic awareness and their ability to evaluate contradictory and tautological statements were administered in Ireland to grade 3 and grade 6 English-Irish bilingual children and control groups of unilingual children matched on IQ, SES, sex, and age. At both grade levels the bilingual children showed a greater awareness of certain properties of language and were better able to evaluate contradictory statements. It is suggested that bilingualism can increase the child's metalinguistic awareness and promote an analytic orientation to linguistic input. © 1978, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.
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