The Effects of Familiar and Unfamiliar Cultural Context on Foreign Language Composition.

Winfield, Fairlee E.; Barnes-Felfeli, Paula

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ERIC Number: EJ272793

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Publication Date: 1982

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The Effects of Familiar and Unfamiliar Cultural Context on Foreign Language Composition.

Winfield, Fairlee E.; Barnes-Felfeli, Paula

Modern Language Journal, v66 n4 p373-78 Win 1982

Reports on research intended to determine whether easing the cognitive processing load by having writers deal with contextually familiar material improves fluency, grammaticality, and complexity of the writing. Overall results tend to indicate that writing does improve when the material is culturally familiar. (EKN)

Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Education, Language Processing, Language Research, Second Language Instruction, Second Languages, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Language: English

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