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Multilingual awareness and metacognition in multilingually diverse classrooms

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices

DOI: 10.1558/jmtp.17285

Authors: Ulrike Jessner, Elisabeth Allgäuer-Hackl

Institutions: University of Pannonia, Universität Innsbruck

Language: English

Topic: Multilingual Education and Policy

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3106315437

FWCI: 10.75

Cites: 64

Cited by: 29

Related to: 10