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Writing Strategies in Japanese as a Foreign Language: Lowering or Keeping Up the Standards.
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Uzawa, Kozue; Cumming, Alister – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1989
Analysis of the processes of composing in a distinctly foreign language, Japanese for Anglophone Canadians, suggests a need for decisions concerning instructional strategies for "keeping up the standard" (associated with native language composition) and for "lowering the standard" in order to access knowledge in the foreign…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Japanese
Writing Processes in French and English of Fifth Grade French Immersion Students.
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Fagan, William T.; Hayden, Helen Mary – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1988
A study of the writing processes of ten fifth-grade French immersion students examined 22 features of their writing in both English and French. Differences across languages occurred in eight features, and students displayed a wide range of writing process behaviors in both languages. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French
L'application d'un modele mathematique a l'analyse de dissertations en langue seconde: utile ou pas (Application of a Mathematical Model in the Analysis of Essays in a Second Language: Useful or Not?)?
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Corbeil, Giselle – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
A study analyzed the second-language essays of seven anglophone and one French-speaking Quebec university students enrolled in a literature course by using a cognitive-metacognitive framework developed for mathematical problem-solving and a think-aloud protocol. Results indicate the framework, with some adjustments, is a reliable tool for…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Essays, Foreign Countries, Higher Education