Naslov
The positive impact of child’s metalinguistic awareness on the acquisition of a new foreign language – Russian as L4

Autori
Jajić Novogradec, Marina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Book of Abstracts The 12th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism 14 – 17 September 2022 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia / - , 2022, 132-132

Skup
The 12th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 14.09.2022. - 17.09.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
cross-linguistic approach, metalinguistic awareness, multilingual participant, Russian as L4

Sažetak
Metalinguistic awareness as one of the key learner-based factors in language acquisition has been currently investigated in an increasing number of studies on multilingualism (Woll, 2019 ; Troha, Petravić & Šenjug Krleža, 2020). However, case studies on examining metalinguistic awareness in multilingual children are rare (Čengić, 2018). The aim of our study is to present the positive impact metalinguistic awareness might have in child’s multiple language acquisition. The study describes language development of a plurilingual child whose mother tongue is Croatian (L1), the second (or the first foreign) language is English (L2), the third language (or the second foreign) is Italian (L3) and the fourth language (or the third foreign) is Russian (L4). It deals with a positive role of metalinguistic awareness in the acquisition of Russian as the fourth language in the order of acquisition. Based on a longitudinal study of child’s language development from birth till the age of 3 ; 0, as well as further cross-sectional analyses of child’s speech production in the plurilingual environment (from 3 ; 0 till 6 ; 0), the dynamics of various language systems is presented. Differences in language and communicative competences of each language are seen in the exposure to languages and language needs of a particular language. The child’s competences in the consecutive languages were evaluated by language proficiency tests that involved listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. As far as the formal context is concerned, the early plurilingualism serves as a good basis for further plurilingual competence development and metalinguistic awareness. The results showed positive impact of metalinguistic awareness and foreign language experience on the acquisition of Russian as L4. Nevertheless, the observation of child’s individual plurilingualism can contribute to better thinking on the early introduction of multiple foreign languages in the primary school curriculum regardless of their position in the society.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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