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Peer reviewedCox, Jerry L. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1978
Proposes a method, based on dependency theory, for teaching reading in the foreign language classroom. Examples are provided for English, German, French, and Norwegian. (AM)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Dictionaries, English (Second Language), French
Peer reviewedCohen, Avraham – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1982
A study investigated the ability of socially handicapped Israeli students to determine a word's meaning from its linguistic context. The results and their implications for second language instruction are examined in light of current theories of context. (MSE)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Cultural Context, Decoding (Reading), Descriptive Linguistics
Peer reviewedZuckernick, Howard – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Focuses on how second language (L2) readers go about decoding word forms. The article describes a psycholinguistic experiment investigating how advanced Finnish speakers of English as a foreign language pronounced monosyllabic pseudo-words based on common real-word orthographic patterns in English. Results indicate that even advanced L2 readers'…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), English (Second Language), Finnish, Foreign Countries
