The foreign language writer's strategic behaviour in the allocation of time to writing processes

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-47

  Roca de Larios, Julio ^a   Manchón, Rosa ^b   Murphy, Liz ^b   Marín, Javier ^a  

^a Facultad de Educación Campus de Cartuja   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cognitive processes in writing; Foreign language writing; Proficiency; Second language writing; Strategies; Temporal dimension of writing; Time; Writing processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049087220     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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