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Peer reviewedParks, Susan; Maguire, Mary H. – Language Learning, 1999
Investigated how francophone nurses, newly hired in an English-speaking hospital in Quebec, Canada, developed skill in writing nursing notes in English. Data from interviews and observations indicated that social context and mediation were an important part of nurses' ability to appropriate competence in a subgenre of nursing notes in English. (SM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French, Interviews
