Syntactic complexity and l2 academic immersion effects on readers' recall and pausing strategies for english and spanish texts

Language Learning

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 785-834

  Lazarte, Alejandro A ^a   Barry, Sue ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic immersion; End of clause pauses; English Spanish texts; Implicit prosody; L2 to L1 transfer; Reading recall; Syntactic complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 56849089260     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00479.x     Document Type: Article

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