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Glisan, Eileen W. – Language Learning, 1985
Reports the results of an experiment which tested the ability of native English-speaking students of Spanish and native Spanish speakers to comprehend an oral passage, in Spanish, and remember the word order of certain sentences. The findings indicate that word order significantly affected the degree of the English speakers' comprehension.…
Descriptors: English, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Listening Comprehension

Wolff, Dieter – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
Discusses a preliminary and sketchy hypothesis of second language comprehension based on empirical investigations into strategies and processes specific to second language comprehension. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, Language Processing
Brownscombe, E. Carol – 1977
Little has been done to test or describe reading strategies of second language learners. The study reported in this paper was an attempt to begin to investigate the nature of perceptual strategies which second language learners employ when reading certain English structures, and to ask the question of whether second language learners, when…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)