Abstract
This study examined the English teaching method’s effect on improving metalinguistic ability. Metalinguistic ability refers to the ability to perceive language analytically and to take it as an object of thought. In this study, the author compared the class comment papers of students who took classes designed to improve their metalinguistic abilities (experimental group) with those of students who took conventional classes (control group). The students in both groups majored in early childhood education. The comments were classified into four levels from 0 to 3 in terms of metalinguistic ability level. A χ-square test revealed that the number of comments at metalinguistic ability level 0 was significantly smaller in the experimental group than in the control group, while the number of comments at metalinguistic ability level 1 was significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group. There were no significant differences in the number of comments at metalinguistic ability levels 2 and 3, but the percentage of the total number of comments at both levels was higher in the experimental group than in the control group. The results showed the present teaching method contributes to the improvement of metalinguistic ability. In particular, it is implied that the situation in which the students had to write some kind of comments in addition to questions gave them an opportunity to think more analytically about the content of the class, which supported the development of metalinguistic ability.
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Mika Igarashi, Hosen College of Childhood Education, Japan
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Conference: IICE2023
Stream: Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics (including ESL/TESL/TEFL)
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Igarashi M. (2023) English Instruction Practice for Students of an Early Childhood Education Course: Aiming to Develop Students’ Metalinguistic Ability ISSN: 2189-1036 – The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii 2023 Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-1036.2023.55
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-1036.2023.55
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