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Peer reviewedWinfield, Fairlee E.; Barnes-Felfeli, Paula – Modern Language Journal, 1982
Reports on research intended to determine whether easing the cognitive processing load by having writers deal with contextually familiar material improves fluency, grammaticality, and complexity of the writing. Overall results tend to indicate that writing does improve when the material is culturally familiar. (EKN)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Education, Language Processing, Language Research
