Two Languages, Two Cultures, One Mind: A Study into Developmental Changes in the Students' View of Language As a Tool in Cross-Cultural Communication

• Authors: Bogusława Whyatt
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper I report on the preliminary results of a longitudinal one-year study of students' progression from a low level of language awareness manifested in their superficial/intuitive use of language/languages to a higher level of language self-awareness manifested in their more controlled use of language. The data gathered for this study include four sources: a language awareness questionnaire, think aloud protocols, error analysis and post error analysis in-class discussions. The results of this study are intended to be further explored in a larger research project.

Keywords

EN

Linguistic self-awareness; language control; translation; bilingual language processing; translator training

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 133-147

Dates

published

2007-12-01

online

2008-01-29

Contributors

author

Bogusława Whyatt

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznañ

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10010-007-0016-1