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Braasch, Jason L. G.; Kessler, Erica D. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Comprehension substantially benefits from attending to, thinking about, and mentally representing the sources of any presented information. Such processes require mental effort and unfortunately people do not always engage in such activities. The current article presents a nascent, evolving model of discourse comprehension that formalizes…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, Prediction
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Giacobbe, Jorge; Cammarota, Marie-Ange – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The relationship between the source language (Spanish) and the target language (French) in the construction of lexis during target language acquisition was examined in two case studies, leading to the hypothesis that there are both systematic and nonsystematic approaches to the construction of lexis used by Hispanophones learning French.…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes