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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Main Author: Hu, Guangwei.
Other Authors: Hvitfeldt, Robert
Format: Thesis
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14045