The metalinguistic knowledge of undergraduate students of English language or linguistics

Language Awareness

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 320-337

  Alderson, J Charles ^a   Hudson, Richard ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

changing levels of metalinguistic knowledge; knowledge about language; undergraduate studies of linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887050044     PISSN: 09658416     EISSN: 17477506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658416.2012.722644     Document Type: Article

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