This empirical study aimed at assessing the effects of early foreign language learning in preschoolers on general metalinguistic abiliites and in metaphor comprehension. An experimental and a control group 4 to 6 year-old children were recruited and administered a comprehensive metalinguistic ability test and a task of metaphor comprehension both devised for this age range. The experimental children significantly outperformed the controls in both tasks and at any age.
Il primo sviluppo metalinguistico e la comprensione di metafore in rapporto all'apprendimento precoce di una lingua straniera / Pinto, Maria Antonietta; Melogno, Sergio; B., Intaglietta. - In: RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI LINGUISTICA APPLICATA. - ISSN 0033-9725. - STAMPA. - XXXII:3(2000), pp. 75-106.
Il primo sviluppo metalinguistico e la comprensione di metafore in rapporto all'apprendimento precoce di una lingua straniera.
PINTO, Maria Antonietta;MELOGNO, Sergio;
2000
Abstract
This empirical study aimed at assessing the effects of early foreign language learning in preschoolers on general metalinguistic abiliites and in metaphor comprehension. An experimental and a control group 4 to 6 year-old children were recruited and administered a comprehensive metalinguistic ability test and a task of metaphor comprehension both devised for this age range. The experimental children significantly outperformed the controls in both tasks and at any age.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
