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Murphy, Liz; Roca de Larios, Julio – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2010
Studies of cognitive processes in SL writing have paid attention to the strategies that writers use to tackle problems in composing. In text-generation, finding lexical items in the L2 to express their meanings is one of the most crucial problems writers have to face, for reasons related to the availability and accessibility of relevant linguistic…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Spanish Speaking
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van Weijen, Daphne; van den Bergh, Huub; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Sanders, Ted – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2009
This study examined writers' use of their first language (L1) while writing in their second language (L2). Twenty students each wrote four short argumentative essays in their L1 (Dutch) and four in their L2 (English) under think-aloud conditions. We analysed whether L1 use varied between writers and tasks, and whether it was related to general…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Goal Orientation, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning