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Peer reviewedHenry, Kathryn – Modern Language Journal, 1996
Reports the results of a cross-sectional study of 67 short autobiographical essays by U.S. students of Russian at 4 levels. Linguistic measures differentiating the groups included fluency and syntactic fluency, but not accuracy. The article recommends further research into second- and foreign- language learning writing that accounts for different…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, College Students, Context Effect, Cross Sectional Studies
