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Giving formal definitions: a linguistic or metalinguistic skill? (Snow,…
Giving formal definitions: a linguistic or metalinguistic skill? (Snow, Cancino, De Temple, & Schley, 1991)
CONCLUSION
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Contexts for acquisition
Context decides skill: school instruction language, not native home language, enhances formal skills
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BACKGROUND
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Hypotheses
One could perform worse in giving definitions in L2, or not.
Bilinguals could have outperform monolinguals in giving definitions, or not.
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METHODS
Coding
formal definitional quality (FDQ); formal definitional supplement (FDS); informal definitional quality (IDQ); communicative adequacy (CA); conversational features (CF)
"adult-like, Aristotelian definition" with conventional form and criterial information
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Subjects
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137 tested in English, 71 in French (7 in French only)