This study investigated the general situation of metalinguistic awareness of third language learners in Chinese universities.Data analyses showed that the level of metalinguistic awareness in those learners was signif...This study investigated the general situation of metalinguistic awareness of third language learners in Chinese universities.Data analyses showed that the level of metalinguistic awareness in those learners was significantly higher than that of second language learners.And learning a third language can improve metalinguistic awareness.展开更多
The paper is devoted to the description of possible approaches to designing materials for computer-assisted testing of metalinguistic competence of the intending foreign language teachers. By metalinguistic competence...The paper is devoted to the description of possible approaches to designing materials for computer-assisted testing of metalinguistic competence of the intending foreign language teachers. By metalinguistic competence we here mean the learners’ comprehension of such fundamental concepts of linguistic theory as: grammatical and lexical meanings and their types, the concepts of grammatical form and grammatical category, homonyms and synonyms,展开更多
文摘This study investigated the general situation of metalinguistic awareness of third language learners in Chinese universities.Data analyses showed that the level of metalinguistic awareness in those learners was significantly higher than that of second language learners.And learning a third language can improve metalinguistic awareness.
文摘The paper is devoted to the description of possible approaches to designing materials for computer-assisted testing of metalinguistic competence of the intending foreign language teachers. By metalinguistic competence we here mean the learners’ comprehension of such fundamental concepts of linguistic theory as: grammatical and lexical meanings and their types, the concepts of grammatical form and grammatical category, homonyms and synonyms,
