LANGUAGE AWARENESS: ACHIEVING LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE AND PERFORMANCE THROUGH EXPLICIT GRAMMAR

Abstract

Language awareness blends content about language, language skills, attitudinal education, and metacognitive opportunities, which allow the learning participants to reflect on the process of language acquisition, language learning, and language use. Considering its importance in teaching and learning context, it is crucially essential to introduce this multi-faceted domain in academic setting to ensure the success of teaching and learning process to its maximum potential. One of the tools that can be employed to raise language awareness is through grammar, which is the structural foundation of our ability to express ourselves. Having knowledge about how languages work (L1 and L2) helps us detect ambiguity, foster precision, and even exploit the richness of expressions available in languages. Therefore, through clear and easy way to understand’ grammar, both linguistic competence in the form of a set internalized rules and linguistic performance which is demonstrated in utterances or sentences can be achieved. This paper highlights some research concerning grammar as language awareness raiser and attempts to promote language awareness movement in general.

Keywords: Language Awareness, Grammar, Linguistic Competence, and Linguistic Performance.