33.671, Books: Awareness and instruction when kindergarteners acquire grammar: Spit

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Subject: 33.671, Books: Awareness and instruction when kindergarteners acquire grammar: Spit

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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 08:16:19
From: Karijn Hootsen [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Awareness and instruction when kindergarteners acquire grammar: Spit

 


Title: Awareness and instruction when kindergarteners acquire grammar 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/awareness-and-instruction-when-kindergarteners-acquire-grammar 


Author: Sybren Spit

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933967 Pages: 241 Price: Europe EURO 33


Abstract:

This book presents studies that were designed to investigate the contribution
of statistical learning to acquiring meaningful grammatical elements, and the
role of awareness in that process. Using a series of miniature language
learning experiments, we first aimed to investigate whether kindergarteners
develop awareness of the grammatical knowledge they acquire. Next, we also
wondered whether young children benefit from being made aware of their target
of learning, by receiving explicit instruction about what it is they have to
learn.

While not all results presented in this book were conclusive, we did find
evidence that young children may be aware of their acquired linguistic
knowledge, even though they cannot verbalize this awareness. The outcomes of
our instruction studies were mixed: explicit instruction seemingly did not
lead to higher accuracy rates in tasks measuring learning, but it did seem to
affect children's eye movements during such tasks.

With these studies, we aim to show that statistical learning, awareness, and
explicit instruction all come into play when children acquire meaningful
grammatical elements. Although the combination of these factors is an under-
researched topic, we think that this book shows that such research might be
promising.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=160093




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