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Peer reviewedCornish, Francis – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1992
An approach to teaching and testing advanced French reading comprehension of expository social science texts is presented within a "communicative-cognitive" framework. Learners receive instructions that encourage them to perceive and use the writer's overall rhetorical scheme as a conceptual-functional framework for integrating the components.…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, French
