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Download full textMarek, Michael; Wu, Pin-hsiang Natalie – Online Submission, 2011
This is a conceptual paper, based on several semesters of collaboration in which the American author interacted with students in the Taiwanese author's EFL classes in Taiwan. The best native language users are typically those who read extensively, especially reading for pleasure in their youth. This gives them a large vocabulary and an intuitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
Nakagama, Sonia Yoshie – Horizontes, 1997
Discusses both the ways and the contexts which make sense within the tension created by the relationship between reader and reading in short stories and cartoons. (PA)
Descriptors: Comics (Publications), Foreign Countries, Language Role, Popular Culture
Dollerup, Cay – Semantik, Kognition und Aquivalenz, 1988
The reader is a component part of the only form of a text which can be discussed meaningfully as a message. As readers with different linguistic backgrounds experience texts in fusions with their own personalities and their own social and cultural backgrounds, these dynamic texts differ in different languages. Accordingly, intranslatability exists…
Descriptors: Danish, English, Foreign Countries, Interpreters
Winser, W. N. – 1991
Any model of reading must take into account the role of the language system in reading. Readers' subjectivities and the reading position taken up in a text can be explicated by demonstrating how texts function in context and how readers function in social situations to construct possible meanings. Components of this model include text and context…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Lightfoot, Martin, Ed.; Martin, Nancy, Ed. – 1988
Reflecting the influence of James Britton in the field of language and learning, this book--a collection of essays by researchers and practitioners in the area of language and learning--focuses on recent issues of language development in learning. The book contains the following 27 essays: (1) "Social Interaction as Scaffold: The Power and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1990
No matter what pains translators take to produce a target-language text "identical" to the source-language text, criticism and/or translation of an original literary work cannot be the same in different language communities. That translation may change potentialities in the textual experience is particularly obvious in literature with a…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Folk Culture
Cauldwell, Brit N. – 1990
Hong Kong education is based on an imperialist rhetoric which serves to "domesticate" rather than "liberate" the school population. The importance of memorization is clearly evident in education in Hong Kong. The community's educational system reflects a classical Chinese emphasis on familiarity with a set body of texts and on…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Ethnocentrism
