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Direct linkWalter, Catherine – Applied Linguistics, 2004
Two notions from cognitive psychology were examined in relation to the transfer of reading comprehension skills from L1 to L2: (1) the notion that reading comprehension proceeds by the comprehender's building of a mental structure representing the text and (2) the notion of working memory. Two groups of French learners of English (at…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Intermediate Grades, Memory
