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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
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| author | Samson, Christina Muriel |
| author2 | Young, Douglas |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8274 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 School of Education Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Education Samson, Christina Muriel 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 |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| 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_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_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_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 |
| topic | Education |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8274 |
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