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Peer reviewedMorrison, Louise – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Examines the inferencing procedures used by university-level second language (L2) learners of French to guess at the meaning of unfamiliar words in a written L2 text. The article combines qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and compares the strategies used by students assessed as high or low in French proficiency relative to their…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Context Effect
Direct linkMorrison, Louise – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2004
This paper reports the results of a cross-lingual study on the role of comprehension monitoring in L1 (English) and L2 (French) reading proficiency. Fifty-two undergraduate students from two FSL backgrounds, French immersion (FI) and core French (CF), were given reading comprehension tests as well a monitoring task in both languages. Results…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, French, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning
