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Campbell, Cherry – 1987
A study examined the use of background information by native and non-native English-speaking university students in explaining, summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, and copying information from a reading text. Thirty students in composition courses (10 native speakers and 20 non-native speakers, 10 each from a remedial and a standard class) wrote…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)