Multilingual awareness and metacognition in multilingually diverse classrooms
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jmtp.17285Keywords:
Dynamic Model of Multilingualism, multilingual awareness, metalinguistic , holistic language education, Five Building Blocks approach to language learning/ teachingAbstract
Research interest in multilingual development and multilingual awareness (MLA) has been growing over the last years, and MLA has been defined as a key component of multilingual learning and multiple language use. The first part of the article focuses on the development of MLA in learners as a subcomponent of metacognition and a key factor of emergent properties in multilinguals as presented from a dynamic systems and complexity theory perspective in the Dynamic Model of Multilingualism (DMM) (Herdina and Jessner, 2002). The second part describes a DMM-based language teaching and learning approach, the Five Building Blocks of Holistic Language Education/Learning, which visualises the relationship between linguistic and cognitive processes and enables teachers and learners to reflect on language acquisition and use in order to develop MLA.
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