L1 use during L2 writing: An empirical study of a complex phenomenon

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 235-250

  van Weijen, Daphne ^a   van den Bergh, Huub ^a,b   Rijlaarsdam, Gert ^b   Sanders, Ted ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive activities; Conceptual activities; Generating ideas; L1 use; L1 writing; L2 proficiency; L2 writing; Language switching; Metacomments; Planning; Text quality; Writing process

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349816879     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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