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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Transfer of Reading Comprehension Skills to L2 Is Linked to Mental Representations of Text and to L2 Working Memory
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Walter, 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
Can Learners Use Concordance Feedback for Writing Errors?
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Gaskell, Delian; Cobb, Thomas – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2004
Sentence-level writing errors seem immune to many of the feedback forms devised over the years, apart from the slow accumulation of examples from the environment itself, which second language (L2) learners gradually notice and use to varying degrees. A computer corpus and concordance could provide these examples in less time and more noticeable…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Sentences, Metalinguistics, English (Second Language)