Delineating Latino Student's Reading Strategies
This paper reports on a small-scale study carried out to investígate and identify the learning strategies used by a student to improve second lan-guage learning along with reading comprehension. The study comprised a learnerfromaSpanish-speakingbackground performing a reading taskand undertaking a post-taskinterview. Analysis of the performance evidenced a high level of metacognitive strategies use that correlate with the learner's languageproficiency. Resultsmay contribute to the growingeffortsmadeby EFL teachers to enhance students' language processing ski lis by embracing a teaching approach that adopts a pedagogical stance towards learning strategy instruction and meets learners' characteristics.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez
2008
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-58112008000100015 |
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