Talking About Words: A Study of French as a Second Language Learners' Lexical Inferencing Procedures.

Morrison, Louise

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Publication Date: 1996

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Talking About Words: A Study of French as a Second Language Learners' Lexical Inferencing Procedures.

Morrison, Louise

Canadian Modern Language Review, v53 n1 p41-75 Oct 1996

Examines the inferencing procedures used by university-level second language (L2) learners of French to guess at the meaning of unfamiliar words in a written L2 text. The article combines qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and compares the strategies used by students assessed as high or low in French proficiency relative to their classmates. (27 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Context Effect, Critical Reading, Foreign Countries, French, Higher Education, Interlanguage, Language Proficiency, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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