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

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.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

School of Education

Year dc:date.issued

2009

Author dc:creator

• Samson, Christina Muriel

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Young, Douglas
• Paxton, Moragh
• Rochford, Kevin
• Dunne, Tim

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8274

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8274