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Direct linkGearon, Margaret – Babel, 2004
Recent research by Swain (2000a, 2000b, 1998, 1995), Swain and Lapkin (2001, 1998, 1995) and Kowal and Swain (1997, 1994) has examined the role of collaborative tasks in focusing immersion students' attention on the need for explicit knowledge of grammatical forms and lexical items in the production (especially written) of French texts. This is…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedCohen, Andrew D. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Explores what it means to think in a target language, discusses those factors determining planned and unplanned use of more than one language for thinking, considers the role of target-language thinking in improving language ability, and examines mental translation in the reading of intermediate college French. The article concludes that benefits…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Processes, College Students, English
