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A Resource-Oriented Functional Approach to English Language Learning
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Li, Jia – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2018
This article reports on a case study that investigates the learning preferences and strategies of Chinese students learning English as a second language (ESL) in Canadian school settings. It focuses on the interaction between second language (L2) learning methods that the students have adopted from their previous learning experience in China and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Autonomous Pluralistic Learning Strategies among Mexican Indigenous and Minority University Students Learning English
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Despagne, Colette – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2015
This critical ethnographic case study draws on Indigenous and minority students' process of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Mexico. The study specifically focuses on students who enrolled in a program called "A Wager with the Future." The aim of the study is to identify and understand contributing factors in these…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Mexicans, English (Second Language), Power Structure
The Role of Conscious Strategies in Second Language Proficiency.
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Bialystok, Ellen – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Reports on a study which sought to identify and examine the effects of certain learning strategies--practice, monitoring, and inferencing--on second language learning. (AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Proficiency, Language Research, Learning Processes
Comprehension Monitoring in First and Second Language Reading
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Morrison, Louise – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2004
This paper reports the results of a cross-lingual study on the role of comprehension monitoring in L1 (English) and L2 (French) reading proficiency. Fifty-two undergraduate students from two FSL backgrounds, French immersion (FI) and core French (CF), were given reading comprehension tests as well a monitoring task in both languages. Results…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, French, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning
Language Learning Strategies and Language Proficiency: Investigating the Relationship in Hong Kong.
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Bremner, Stephen – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1999
A study examined levels of learning strategy use in 149 Hong Kong university students of English-as-a-Second-Language, and the relationship to language proficiency, using the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL). The appropriateness of using SILL and proficiency measure in tandem to establish a clear relationship between strategy use…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Talking About Words: A Study of French as a Second Language Learners' Lexical Inferencing Procedures.
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Morrison, Louise – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Examines the inferencing procedures used by university-level second language (L2) learners of French to guess at the meaning of unfamiliar words in a written L2 text. The article combines qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and compares the strategies used by students assessed as high or low in French proficiency relative to their…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Context Effect
Apprentissage du francais langue seconde avec le videodisque "Vi-Conte": quelques analyses dans une approche mixte (French Second Language Learning with the Videodisc "Vi-Conte": Some Analyses with a Mixed Approach).
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Renie, Delphine – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
Evaluation of French second-language learning among college and adult students with videodisk "Vi-Conte" found: beginners adopted less linear paths than adults or more advanced students; lexical acquisition varied by proficiency level; frequency, salience, mode of presentation of lexical items in a multimedia environment affected acquisition;…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Computer Software Development, Courseware
Learning English as a Second Language in a Special School in Quebec.
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Lightbown, Patsy M.; Spada, Nina – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1997
Describes a school in Quebec, in which students enrolled in an intensive English-as-a-Second-Language program (ESL) use English in a variety of communicative interactions inside and outside the ESL classroom. Assessment of students' performance indicates that they achieve higher levels of English than comparable students in other intensive ESL…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Introduction: Vocabulary Learning and Teaching in a Second Language.
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Harley, Birgit – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Focuses on the importance of vocabulary knowledge as fundamental to proficiency in a second language (L2). The article notes that each of the studies in this issue examines L2 vocabulary learning from a particular angle, including lexical progress, learning strategies, context effect, the role of learner factors such as age and first language…
Descriptors: Age, Context Effect, Elementary Secondary Education, English