Przejawy rozwoju świadomości językowej w okresie dzieciństwa i możliwości jej stymulowania
Indications of development of linguistic awareness in childhood and possibilities of its stimulation

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to present selected indications of developing linguistic awareness in childhood. The author begins with an analysis of notions of “metalanguage”, “metalinguistic competence”, “linguistic metaawarness” and “linguistic knowledge”. Against the background of notions similar in meaning, she defines the notion of linguistic awareness, which she sees as the broadest category possible comprising knowledge, abilities and experiences (acquired as a result of relations with others, learning and creative personal activity) of an individual related to their use of a language (languages) in various aspects, forms (spoken and written) and contexts of use. Further on, the author searches for the indications of linguistic awareness in children, especially pre-school children. She attempts to categorize these indications and exemplifies them with utterances of the youngest children. The author concludes her discussion searching for tools which can help teachers and parents develop linguistic awareness in the youngest. The author finds these in contemporary children’s literature.

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