Italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in English as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts

Italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in English as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts

Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-258). === This study, within the Vygotskyian constructivist socio-cultural developmental framework, investigates the interdependence of general and domain-specific conceptual knowledge, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, att...

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Main Author: Samson, Christina Muriel
Other Authors: Young, Douglas
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
Subjects:
Education
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8274
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spelling ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uct-oai-localhost-11427-82742020-07-22T05:07:37Z Italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in English as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts Samson, Christina Muriel Young, Douglas Paxton, Moragh Rochford, Kevin Dunne, Tim Education Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-258). This study, within the Vygotskyian constructivist socio-cultural developmental framework, investigates the interdependence of general and domain-specific conceptual knowledge, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, attitude, motivation and context in the process of bidirectional ItalianΓåöEnglish transfer in Italian undergraduates comprehending domain-specific texts in the Faculty of Economics, University of Florence, Italy. The method adopted is primarily qualitative, with quantitative support. 2014-10-08T09:47:24Z 2014-10-08T09:47:24Z 2009 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8274 eng application/pdf University of Cape Town Faculty of Humanities School of Education
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Italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in English as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts
description Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-258). === This study, within the Vygotskyian constructivist socio-cultural developmental framework, investigates the interdependence of general and domain-specific conceptual knowledge, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, attitude, motivation and context in the process of bidirectional ItalianΓåöEnglish transfer in Italian undergraduates comprehending domain-specific texts in the Faculty of Economics, University of Florence, Italy. The method adopted is primarily qualitative, with quantitative support.
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title Italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in English as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts
title_short Italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in English as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts
title_full Italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in English as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts
title_fullStr Italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in English as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts
title_full_unstemmed Italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in English as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts
title_sort italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in english as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts
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