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L1 and L2 Writers' Strategic and Linguistic Knowledge: A Model of Multiple-Level Discourse Processing.
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Whalen, Karen; Menard, Nathan – Language Learning, 1995
Compares the cognitive processing of 12 anglophone French students who wrote an argumentative text in their first language (English) and second language (L2) (French). Results indicate that the writers' strategic knowledge and capacity for meaningful multiple-level discourse processing explains the constraining effects of linguistic processing on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis