Abstract
Corinne Gomila & Sonia Branca-Rosoff: The metalinguistic dimension of school reading pedagogy. Based upon data gathered in twelve classrooms, the aim of this paper is to emphasize the importance of metalinguistic activity associated with the teaching of reading. Three types of metalinguistic treatments are observed; 1) autonymy alone when the schoolmasters repeat and validate or invalidate pupil sentences; 2) autonymy accompanied by units of ordinary language such as words, small words, bits of words... 3) Finally, the beginning of a grammatical nomenclature. However, even this last category have pragmatical dimension related to reading activity. It is quite different from the scholarly categories, which belong to academic disciplines (grammar and linguistics).
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