Journal Articles
'All these like little name things': A comparative study of language teacher's explicit knowledge of grammar and grammatical terminology
- 'All these like little name things': A comparative study of language teacher's explicit knowledge of grammar and grammatical terminology
- Language Awareness, 8(3), 143-159, 1999
- Routledge
- 1999
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Secondary Education
- An in-depth investigation is currently being conducted into the metalinguistic awareness of a group of practising L2 teachers, all non-native speakers teaching English in Hong Kong secondary schools. The investigation focuses on teacher metalinguistic awareness (TMA) as it relates to grammar. As part of this in-depth study, a test was administered in order to explore the declarative dimension of TMA: the teacher's explicit knowledge of grammar and grammatical terminology. The test was based largely on Alderson et al. (1996), which in turn draws upon Bloor (1986). The present paper reports on the test performance of these serving teachers as an indication of the level and nature of their explicit knowledge of grammar and grammatical terminology. It also compares their performance with that of two groups of prospective teachers of EFL/ESL: one group of native-speakers and the other of non-native speakers. Comparison with the former helps to shed light on the native/non-native issue (see, for example, Medgyes, 1994) as it relates to explicit knowledge of grammar, while comparison with the latter offers some indication of the effects of post-secondary education and teaching experience upon such knowledge.[Copyright of Language Awareness is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658419908667125]
- Special Issue: Papers Presented at the Fourth International Conference of the Association of Language Awareness (Quebec City, June 1998).
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 09658416
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/c08a6226
- 2010-11-24
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