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ERIC Number: EJ552194
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1041-679X
A Gender-Related Analysis of Strategies Used To Process Written Input in the Native Language and a Foreign Language.
Young, Dolly Jesusita; Oxford, Rebecca
Applied Language Learning, v8 n1 p43-73 1997
Examined the strategies used by native-English-speaking foreign language (FL) learners to read Spanish and English texts in order to investigate differences in FL reading strategies between males and females. Results indicate that students processed the Spanish and English passages using local and global strategies, respectively, and that males and females used similar strategies. (50 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Higher Education, Language Processing, Learning Strategies, Native Speakers, Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning, Secondary Education, Sex Differences, Spanish, Syntax
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Native Language