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Metalinguistic awareness in Dutch immigrants
- Source: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Volume 15, Issue 2, Jan 1992, p. 19 - 28
Abstract
In this paper data are presented on some aspects of metalinguistic awareness in Dutch adults who emigrated to Australia at least 25 years ago. A grammatically judgement test was administered to 37 informants in Melbourne. The data show that the migrants do not differ significantly from a control group in the Netherlands. This outcome, which is in line with earlier findings from Dutch migrants in France, suggests that metalinguistic skills in L1 are extremely resistent to attrition.
© 1992 John Benjamins Publishing Company