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Do Learners Notice Enhanced Forms While Interacting with the L2? An Online and Offline Study of the Role of Written Input Enhancement in L2 Reading.
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Leow, Ronald P. – Hispania, 2001
Think-aloud protocols were gathered to establish that first-year college level participants noticed targeted linguistic forms (Spanish formal imperatives) while reading an enhanced or unenhanced text. Suggests there are no significant benefits of written input enhancement over unenhanced written input for the amount of reported noticing of Spanish…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Linguistic Input, Protocol Analysis
Concurrent and Retrospective Verbal Reports as Tools to Better Understand the Role of Attention in Second Language Tasks.
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Camps, Joaquim – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2003
Investigates how the use of think-aloud protocols, both concurrent and retrospective, can contribute to the study of the role of attention in second language acquisition. The study is based on analysis of think-aloud protocols produced by 74 first-year learners of Spanish during and immediately after a reading and multiple-choice activity.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, College Students, Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Reading in Two Languages: How Attitudes toward Home Language and Beliefs About Reading Affect the Behaviors of "Underprepared" L2 College Readers.
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Kamhi-Stein, Lia D. – TESOL Quarterly, 2003
Reports results of research investigating the reading strategies of four nonnative speakers of English who were considered underprepared for academic study at a U.S. university. Through analysis of think-aloud protocols, questionnaire data, and indicators of comprehension, identifies strategies learners use in their native language (Spanish) and…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Attitudes
A Study of the Role of Awareness in Foreign Language Behavior: Aware versus Unaware Learners.
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Leow, Ronald P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000
Investigates the effects of awareness, or lack thereof, on 32 adult second or foreign language learners' subsequent intake and written production of targeted Spanish morphological forms. Think-aloud protocol data were used to measure awareness or lack of it, and morphological learning was assessed by the learners' performances on two postexposure…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Metalinguistics
Text-Generating Strategies of Three Multilingual Writers: A Protocol-based Study.
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Armengol-Castells, Lourdes – Language Awareness, 2001
Compares some of the writing behaviors present in the think-aloud protocols of three male Spanish university students while writing in Catalan, their native language, and in Spanish and English. Analysis of the subjects' composing behaviors based on think-aloud protocols shows that their planning and other strategies are consistent across the…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Intellectual and Linguistic Progress in Foreign Language Students: Students' Development during Their First Year of Spanish at a Swedish University.
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Enkvist, Inger – Studies of Higher Education and Research, 1995
A series of partial studies aimed at understanding how much progress students can make in 1 year of second language study are described. The first concerns Swedish university students in their first year studying Spanish as a third language in higher education. Students were tested and interviewed for their perceptions of their language ability…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language)