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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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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Samson, C. 2009. 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. University of Cape Town.