Mr. Wong tells a joke in his fourth-grade class: "An eye doctor fell into the lens- grinding machine and made a spectacle of himself." The humor of the joke rests, of
Course, on the double meaning of the word spectacle. With respect to children's
Language development, such word play is most likely to:
A) Confuse and frustrate children
B) Enhance children's metalinguistic awareness
C) Enhance children's pragmatic development
D) Enhance children's ability to construct narratives

Question

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Word play, such as puns that rely on the double meaning of words, enhances children's metalinguistic awareness by making them aware of and think about the multiple meanings that words can have.

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