Explicit metalinguistic knowledge at work : the case of spontaneous written production by formal adult Chinese learners of English
An issue of great controversy in second language acquisition (SLA) research has been the status of second language (L2) learners' explicit metalinguistic knowledge (i.e. more or less consciously represented and verbalisable knowledge of L2 grammar) in their acquisition and use of the target la...
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2008
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14045 |