ABSTRACT
Metalinguistic knowledge tests are typically administered in an untimed written modality and may include metalinguistic labelling tasks, error correction, description and explanation tasks, and/or rule illustration tasks. The error correction part of the metalinguistic knowledge test yielded a high score, much higher than the error correction task on the grammaticality judgement task (GJT), where learners had to identify ungrammatical sentences, pinpoint the error and then provide the correction. Children’s metalinguistic awareness can also be assessed by means of GJTs, although the conditions that are being contrasted are different from the timed/untimed and grammatical/ungrammatical conditions typically used in measures of explicit knowledge administered to adults. A more integrated measure that has been used to assess metalinguistic awareness in children is a verbal fluency task. Children’s metalinguistic awareness can also be assessed by means of GJTs, although the conditions that are being contrasted are different from the timed/untimed and grammatical/ungrammatical conditions typically used in measures of explicit knowledge administered to adults.
