Abstract

GALINDO MARTINEZ, Angelmiro  and  BOTERO RESTREPO, Margarita Alexandra. Bilingual developmental pattern, linguistic and metalinguistic skills: 2nd and 5th graders in a pilot bilingual school in Quindío, Colombia. Leng. [online]. 2016, vol.44, n.2, pp.313-339. ISSN 0120-3479.

This article presents the results of a non- experimental research in which Colombian subjects of 2nd and 5th grade participated. It was determined the analysis and control of information in tests of grammatical judgment and verbal fluency in Spanish and English. It was found that 5th graders provide, with the same ease, the ungrammaticality of semantic and non-semantic sentences in L1, but it did not happen in the L2; also, the categorical and phonological verbal fluency tests in L1 and L2 were solved with the same ease. Finally, the 5th grade outperformed the 2nd grade in tests of verbal fluency in L1 and L2, and in determining the ungrammaticality of semantic and non-semantic sentences in L1. It was concluded that there is an association between the analysis and control of the information that varies according to the language and the task involved

Keywords : bilingualism; bilingual education; language immersion; metalinguistic skills.

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