Metalinguistic Awareness and Bilingual vs. Monolingual EFL Learners: Evidence from a Diagonal Bilingual Context

This paper reports a study of 85 Iranian EFL learners in the English Language Department of Urmia University. It explores the possible differences between performance of 38 Persian monolingual and 47 Turkish-Persian bilingual EFL learners on metalinguistic tasks of ungrammatical structures and trans...

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Main Author: Sima Modirkhamene
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch 2008-02-01
Series:Journal of Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:http://jal.iaut.ac.ir/article_524179_43b9b941c6672d7b1b55c224192ca983.pdf