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Introduction
How can metalinguistic awareness be operationalized?
Published online: 13 May 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/pl.25013.kel
https://doi.org/10.1075/pl.25013.kel
Article outline
- The construct of metalinguistic awareness
- Dimensions of metalinguistic awareness
- Multilinguistic awareness
- About the articles in this issue
- Hans-Georg Müller & Franz Unterholzner
- How to stumble purposefully: Metacognitive and metalinguistic self-regulation on the path from knowledge to skill
- Birgit Spechtenhauser, Barbara Hofer & Elisabeth Allgäuer-Hackl
- Conceptualizing and testing multilingual awareness in multilingual educational contexts
- Ulrike Jessner-Schmidt
- Multilingual awareness as a key factor in multilingual learning and teaching
- Anja Wildemann & Katharina Kellermann
- Ontological and epistemological basic concepts within the conceptual change approach using the example of causal relations
- Muhammed Akbulut, Sandra Reitbrecht, Ida Menditti, Antonia Gösweiner & Sabine Schmölzer-Eibinger
- Developing genre awareness in novice academic writers in secondary education
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