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Peer reviewedRosa, Elena; O'Neill, Michael D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1999
Investigates how second language intake was affected both by awareness and by the conditions under which a problem-solving task was performed. Spanish conditional sentences were presented to learners through five different degrees of explicitness. Intake was measured through a multiple-choice recognition test administered immediately after the…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Research, Multiple Choice Tests
Sternberg, Robert J. – 1978
Linear syllogisms present two premises, each describing a relation between two terms. The individual's task is to infer the relation among the three terms of the linear syllogism, and then answer a question about one or more of these relations. For example, "John is taller than Bob. Sam is shorter than Bob. Who is the tallest?" Students…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Error Patterns
