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Abstract
Metalinguistic skills include the awareness and regulator of linguistic components of language. The Prospective teachers must delight the language as an object of thought. Metalinguistic ability can be alienated into four broad groups phonological, Semantic, syntactic, pragmatic. A large part of successful language interference is centered on the scholar being aware of language and the mechanisms of language. For the present study, the investigator used the survey method. The populations of the present study are the students studying in B.Ed. colleges of Prospective English Teachers in the Sivaganga district. The sample for the present study has been selected using the stratified random sampling technique from the population. In the present study, the investigator used the following tools. Awareness of Meta-Linguistic scale developed by Investigator (2018). The investigator has used the test-retest method for establishing the reliability of the tool. The product-moment correlation between the two sets of scores was calculated. It is 0.78. Thus the reliability of the tool has been established. Each statement in the linguistic scale had three alternative responses. They must develop metalinguistic awareness or the ability to contemplate and drama with language apart from its denotation.