Abstract

Metalinguistic awareness defined as the ability to reflect upon and manipulate the structural aspects of language has emerged as a critical cognitive skill contributing to children’s academic growth. It enables learners to notice patterns analyze linguistic forms and understand how language operates beyond mere communication. This cognitive capacity supports reading comprehension vocabulary expansion problem solving creative writing and mathematical reasoning by strengthening neural pathways associated with attention memory and analytical thinking. Over the last two decades educational psychologists and linguists have highlighted how metalinguistic skills—such as phonological awareness morphological understanding syntactic knowledge and pragmatic sensitivity—play a central role in improving literacy outcomes and enabling children to transfer linguistic insights across subjects. This research paper investigates the extent to which metalinguistic awareness strengthens academic performanc