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Liu, Jie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2016
This study explores how a change of learning environment from China to the United Kingdom affects Chinese international master's students' use of strategies in academic reading. Think aloud was used at two time points in one academic year among 15 participants. To capture the complexity of the academic reading, reading strategies were categorized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change
Hu, Hsueh-chao Marcella; Nassaji, Hossein – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2012
In recent years the study of second language (L2) vocabulary learning through reading has attracted much attention in the field of L2 acquisition. A specific area that has received wide interest is the examination of the processes involved in deriving word meanings from context. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Inferences, Correlation
Abdel Latif, Muhammad M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2009
This article reports on a study aimed at testing the hypothesis that, because of strategic and temporal variables, composing rate and text quantity may not be valid measures of writing fluency. A second objective was to validate the mean length of writers' translating episodes as a process-based indicator that mirrors their fluent written…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Validity, Second Language Instruction, Writing Skills
Nassaji, Hossein – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2004
This study examines the relationship between ESL learners' depth of vocabulary knowledge, their lexical inferencing strategy use, and their success in deriving word meaning from context. Participants read a passage containing 10 unknown words and attempted to derive the meanings of the unknown words from context. Introspective think-aloud…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Inferences
He, Tung-Hsien – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2005
This study examines the combined effects of contrasting mastery and performance goals on the use of composition strategies by adult writers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Thirty-eight Taiwanese English-major college seniors of homogeneous writing proficiency consented to participate in the study. Based on responses on a goal scale, 19…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), College Seniors

Corbeil, Giselle – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
A study analyzed the second-language essays of seven anglophone and one French-speaking Quebec university students enrolled in a literature course by using a cognitive-metacognitive framework developed for mathematical problem-solving and a think-aloud protocol. Results indicate the framework, with some adjustments, is a reliable tool for…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Essays, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Qi, Donald S. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
Investigates factors influencing language-switching behavior in the thinking processes of a bilingual person engaged in second-language writing, based on review of literature and a case study in which an individual performs three tasks using think-aloud protocols: text composition in English (second language); written translation from Chinese…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Chinese, Code Switching (Language)