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Peer reviewedde Groot, Annette M. B.; Poot, Rik – Language Learning, 1997
Orthogonally manipulated three word characteristics in Dutch and English--word imageability; word frequency; and cognate status--and obtained similar data patterns for three groups of bilinguals different from one another in second-language fluency. Findings indicate that "concept mediation" is a universal process in translating words…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Concept Formation, Dutch, English
Peer reviewedWhalen, Karen; Menard, Nathan – Language Learning, 1995
Compares the cognitive processing of 12 anglophone French students who wrote an argumentative text in their first language (English) and second language (L2) (French). Results indicate that the writers' strategic knowledge and capacity for meaningful multiple-level discourse processing explains the constraining effects of linguistic processing on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
