More specifically for the present study, the investigation focused on preservice teachers' MA in relation to grammar and its importance for their future students' understanding of language. Barbara Zurer Pearson, in her book Raising a Bilingual Child (Living Language Series) , notes that one of the advantages of bilingualism in children is that these bilingual kids become metalinguistically aware at an earlier age then monolingual children. Metalinguistic awareness is the ability to analyze, think about, or manipulate language as an object separate from its meaning in or out of context . Metalinguistic awareness increases students’ knowledge of their choices. Methods: Four hundred and fifteen elementary students in China … Metalinguistic awareness increases students’ knowledge of their choices. To be a successful communicator, speaker, reader, and writer, individuals need to possess adequate metalinguistic skills. In simple terms “metalinguistics” refers to the individual’s ability to actively think about, talk about, and manipulate language. How does having a toolbox of problem-solving skills help us in our academic lives and in our personal lives? This paper reports on a project (funded by a small Australian Research Council grant) investigating levels of metalinguistic knowledge of English and other languages amongst first-year undergraduate learners of French, Chinese and Italian and the relationship between this knowledge and success in studying a language at university. The fact that you develop a metalinguistic ability in your own mother tongue will be a great kick off to learn another, new language, as you will start to compare and contrast it to your native language – (Source “Why are Metalinguistic Skills Important?” March 4, 2013 by Geoff Nixon) Like Liked by 1 person This research was designed to establish the importance of phonological awareness and print awareness in learning to read Spanish. Purpose: This study examined the contribution of metalinguistic awareness including morphological awareness, phonological awareness and orthographical awareness to reading comprehension, and the role of reading fluency as a mediator of the effects of metalinguistic awareness on reading comprehension from grades 2 to 4. Phonological awareness, morphological awareness and orthographical awareness have usually been observed as metalinguistic awareness which is regarded to have special importance for reading . Metalinguistic awareness (MA) in the context of the present study is the ability to deconstruct and analyze a language's intricate systems, and by doing so, better understand how these systems work. Metalinguistic awareness is exactly what I’ve been describing: knowledge about language. Why is it important to be able to say things in more than one way? How does having a toolbox of problem-solving skills help us in our academic lives and in our personal lives? Teacher Metalinguistic Awareness and Input for Learning Stephen Andrews Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Hong Kong This paper sets out to examine the importance in the instructed-learning setting of the L2 teacher’ s ‘ knowledge about language’ (her metalinguistic awareness,orTMA). Why do we have to be able to communicate for a range of purposes and to different audiences? A sample of 136 preliterate Spanish children (70 boys and 66 … Reading, writing, and spelling require active level awareness and thought about language. Why do we have to be able to communicate for a range of purposes and to different audiences? Why is it important to be able to say things in more than one way? Metalinguistic Awareness and Literacy Acquisition - 4 Metalinguistic Awareness and Non-Alphabetic Literacy By analogy with the role of phonemic awareness in alphabetic literacy, it might be expected that awareness of syllables would be crucial to learning to read in a syllabary (a writing system in which there