Metalinguistic dimensions of bilingual language proficiency

Ellen Bialystok

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511620652.008

Metalinguistic dimensions of bilingual language proficiency

In: Metalinguistic dimensions of bilingual language proficiency (Cambridge University Press eBooks)

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The [bilingual] child learns to see his language as one particular system among many, to view its phenomena under more general categories, and this leads to awareness of his linguistic operations.(Vygotsky, 1962, p. 110)

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