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Cross-lexical interactions in relation to metalinguistic awareness and multilingual proficiency in Russian as L3

The aim of the study was to look into the role of metalinguistic awareness and multilingual proficiency in English and Russian lexical interactions by Croatian students acquiring English as L2 and Russian as L3. A synonym provision task was used as the main instrument to measure the instances of CLI in the written Russian language production. Language proficiency was measured by students' self- assessment in all the three languages and their grade in language courses at the university. The results showed that, apart from students' high level of proficiency in Croatian and English and their metalinguistic awareness, there are other factors, like exposure to languages, psychotypology and recency, that should be taken into consideration while dealing with cross-linguistic studies in multilingual language acquisition.

cross-lexical interactions ; metalinguistic awareness ; multilingual proficiency ; English as L2 ; Russian as L3

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