The DOI matches its Crossref record; 138 of the 138 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Language awareness and language learning
Open accessAbstract
This article reviews Language Awareness (LA) as a field of research and practice. It deals with the period from 1990 to the present, asking what LA is, how it has been collectively constructed during this time, what the theoretical underpinnings might be and what it means in practical, methodological terms in the classroom and for society. It is recognized that its multidisciplinary nature and wide scope could lead to fragmentation, but it is argued that the holistic view evident in LA research and practice is a strength, and that its different sub-fields have certain core notions in common which give LA coherence. The paper begins with a brief background sketch and outline, and goes on to discuss the literature on cognitive aspects of LA, such as awareness, attention and noticing. The review then enquires into the characteristics of LA teaching methodology, and what LA is needed for teachers to implement it. Social and political perspectives are then explored in brief reviews of Critical Language Awareness, Inter-/Cross-cultural Awareness, and multilingualism. The paper closes by drawing conclusions and making suggestions for further research.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The attention system of the human brain
Posner, M. I., & Petersen, S. E. (1990) · Annual Review of Neuroscience · doi:10.1146/annurev.ne.13.030190.000325 · Cited by 8,070 · cited 1×
“According to Posner & Petersen (1990) attention consists of three elements: alertness, detection and orientation.”
MethodFairclough, N. L. (1989) · Cited by 6,650
The Role of Consciousness in Second Language Learning1
SCHMIDT, R. W. (1990) · Applied Linguistics · doi:10.1093/applin/11.2.129 · Cited by 5,435
Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning
Lantolf, J. P. (2013) · Cited by 3,849
(1998) · Cited by 2,572
Effectiveness of L2 instruction: A research synthesis and quantitative meta-analysis
Norris, J. M., & Ortega, L. (2000) · Language Learning · doi:10.1111/0023-8333.00136 · Cited by 2,569
Context and Culture in Language Teaching
Knowles, M., & Kramsch, C. (1995) · The Modern Language Journal · doi:10.2307/330013 · Cited by 2,158
(2000) · Cited by 1,841
Freire, P. (1985) · doi:10.1007/978-1-349-17771-4 · Cited by 1,782
Focus on Form: A Design Feature in Language Teaching Methodology
Long, M. (1991) · Studies in Bilingualism · doi:10.1075/sibil.2.07lon · Cited by 1,775 · cited 1×
“Around then, the tide was starting to turn in favour of the teaching of form within meaning-based instruction, and the view that conscious knowledge facilitates language learning, which caused both research and debate (e.g., Doughty 1991; Long 1991).”
Background
Cited by
Oral corrective feedback in second language classrooms
Lyster, R., Saito, K., & Sato, M. (2013) · Language Teaching · doi:10.1017/s0261444812000365 · Cited by 741
Engagement with language: interrogating a construct
Svalberg, A. M.-L. (2009) · Language Awareness · doi:10.1080/09658410903197264 · Cited by 405
Self-citationBaralt, M., Gurzynski-Weiss, L., & Kim, Y. (2016) · Language Learning & Language Teaching · doi:10.1075/lllt.45.09bar · Cited by 152
Language Awareness in language learning and teaching: A research agenda
Svalberg, A. M.-L. (2012) · Language Teaching · doi:10.1017/s0261444812000079 · Cited by 109
Self-citationMystkowska-Wiertelak, A. (2021) · Second Language Learning and Teaching · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64444-4_6 · Cited by 20
Metadata
- Authors
- Svalberg, A. M.-L.
- Venue
- Language Teaching
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2007-09-07
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 287-308
- ISSN
- 0261-4448 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-3049
- OpenAlex
- W2096398283
- Cited by
- 332
- References
- 138
- FWCI
- 72.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Language awareness and language learning. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1017/s0261444807004491
- The paper
- Svalberg, A. M.-L. (2007). Language awareness and language learning. Language Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444807004491
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
