Language, metalanguage, and language use: a cognitive psycholinguistic view

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The problem addressed in this paper concerns a possible relationship between metalingual knowledge in the form of rules and communicative knowledge of language as demonstrated in second/foreign language production. This paper looks at: 1) the validity of the conviction that second/foreign language production involves the application of rules in the light of insights available from first language development; 2) a conceptual analysis of key terms; 3) some empirical evidence about the role of metalinguistic knowledge in second language use; 4) two explanations from second language acquisition research of the relationship between metalinguistic knowledge and language production; 5) and a currently emerging psycholinguistic monolingual production model. The article concludes with a section on the implications of the analysis for the formal context of language learning and teaching. Copyright © 1993, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

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Dakowska, M. (1993). Language, metalanguage, and language use: a cognitive psycholinguistic view. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3(1), 79–99. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1473-4192.1993.tb00044.x

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