Human Growth and Development / Unit 7 HGD 0965 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Metalinguistic Awareness
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The idea
Metalinguistic awareness is thinking about language itself, which lets children grasp synonyms, words with several meanings, puns and later sarcasm.
In practice
A nine-year-old laughing at a joke that turns on "duck," the bird and the action.
Where people slip
Puns depend on noticing that one word has two meanings, a skill that arrives with metalinguistic awareness.
Your place on the trail
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