Study abroad is often referred to, first and foremost, as an intercultural experience during which "cultures" are encountered and for which mobile students should be prepared. This article, which is based on research carried out on various aspects of student mobility in Europe, and more precisely in Finland, aims to go beyond the…

Discusses how a theory of language development must explain what develops and how development proceeds. Explaining what develops involves creating sequential theories of developing competence that converge to an adult theory, and explaining how development proceeds involves creating theories of the mechanisms of change responsible for movement…

Analyzes positions adopted in S. Borg's "Language Awareness as Methodology" published in this journal in 1994, from the points of view of linguistics and the philosophy of science. The article argues that some attitudes in language awareness are inconsistent with fundamental thinking in linguistics and the philosophy of science. (13…

Describes the workings of one cognitive model for the development of literary knowledge. The model derives from current discussions of the role of conscious processes in language learning. (Author/VWL)

The possible relationship between metalingual knowledge in form of rules and communicative knowledge of language as demonstrated in second/foreign language production is examined. An emerging psycholinguistic monolingual production model is described. (52 references) (Author/LB)

Argues for the use of poetry reading in second language classrooms. Reviews literary and linguistic theories of poetry and synthesizes these theories within a psycholinguistic model of poetry reading, according to which the central aspect of poetry reading is the conscious negotiation of the formal structures of language for comprehension…