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Abstract
ABSTRACT This study examines the nature of metalinguistic awareness in first-year college writers enrolled in two-year degree programs, corequisite support courses, or both. Metalinguistic awareness is an ability to systematize knowledge about language and use that knowledge to monitor language as language. Participants in the study completed reading journals in which they were asked to articulate observations about language used in academic texts. Analysis of responses suggests the students in the study are more likely to address word choice and tone than syntax when attending to the language of a text. Despite relative lack of syntactic metalanguage in student responses, there is evidence of developing metalinguistic awareness. Results suggest a need for research in grammatical concept formation and pedagogy for first-year composition and integrated reading and writing instruction.
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The Journal of College Reading and Learning (JCRL) invites authors to submit their scholarly research for publication. JCRL is an international forum for the publication of high-quality articles on theory, research, and policy related to areas of developmental education, postsecondary literacy instruction, and learning assistance at the postsecondary level. JCRL is published triannually in the spring, summer, and fall for the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA). In addition to publishing investigations of the reading, writing, thinking, and studying of college learners, JCRL seeks manuscripts with a college focus on the following topics: effective teaching for struggling learners, learning through new technologies and texts, learning support for culturally and linguistically diverse student populations, and program evaluations of developmental and learning assistance instructional models.
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