Call for papers: Intervention and metalanguage

[Dorit Ravid]

Call for papers for a special issue of First Language

 

Intervention and Metalanguage

Guest editor: Dorit Ravid, Tel Aviv University

 

Current perspectives on the relationship between meta-language (or language awareness) and language knowledge regard linguistic ability as a graded continuum between its implicit and explicit poles. Thinking about and manipulating language is considered an integral part of psycholinguistic development by most child language researchers today. Language instruction, which promotes metalinguistic awareness, constitutes one of the central and the most important domains in school curricula, both as an independent discipline and as a crucial underpinning for the acquisition and consolidation of literacy skills. Specific language instruction is called for in the case of school children with difficulties in learning and using language. Thus, while meta-linguistic thought emerges in children spontaneously, in many cases intervention projects instructing children in linguistic skills tackle specific difficulties that deliberately draw on or promote metalinguistic awareness as a means of achieving their goals. 

We are calling for papers for a special theme issue of First Language focusing on intervention and metalanguage in the context of first language development. Topics of likely interest include (but are not restricted to): case studies as well as larger population samples; intervention for clinical, educational, literacy or empirical purposes; intervention focusing on phonological, morphological, syntactic, pragmatic or lexical skills, as well as on specific skills such as naming or temporal processing; intervention involving various degrees of linguistic explicitness. Papers will undergo the usual process of peer review and will be considered for the theme issue based on their excellent scientific quality and suitability for the topic of the special issue. 

Submissions should be sent by email to Dorit Ravid at doritr at post.tau.ac.il .  The closing date for submissions is March 30, 2005.

 

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Professor Dorit Ravid
The Constantiner School of Education and the Department of Communications Disorders
Tel Aviv University

Please send mail to:
Dorit Ravid
The Constantiner School of Education
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv 69978, ISRAEL
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Email: doritr at post.tau.ac.il
http://www.tau.ac.il/education/homepg/dorit-ravid.html

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