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The Correlation Between L2 Proficiency and Metalinguistic Knowledge in English: Swedish upper-secondary students' receptive & productive knowledge of subject-verb agreement
University of Gävle, Faculty of Education and Business Studies, Department of Humanities.
2024 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This study, focusing on subject-verb agreement, investigates the correlation between Swedish upper-secondary students' English proficiency and their metalinguistic knowledge. The research adopts a methodological approach inspired by Karen Roehr's 2007 study, utilising both language proficiency and metalinguistic tests. Participants included Swedish students studying English 5, 6, and 7 in upper-secondary school. The study explores whether explicit productive and receptive knowledge correlates with students' metalinguistic understanding of subject-verb agreement. The study's results indicated a slight positive correlation between Swedish upper-secondary students' English proficiency and their metalinguistic knowledge, specifically regarding subject-verb agreement. However, none of the correlations found were statistically significant. This suggests that while there might be a link between English proficiency levels and metalinguistic understanding, the evidence from this study is not strong enough to confirm such a relationship definitively.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2024. , p. 26
Keywords [en]
subject-verb agreement, SLA, proficiency, metalinguistic knowledge, correlation.
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General Language Studies and Linguistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-43911OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-43911DiVA, id: diva2:1844932
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English
Educational program
Upper Secondary Teacher Education Programme
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Available from: 2024-03-18 Created: 2024-03-15 Last updated: 2024-03-18Bibliographically approved

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