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Publication details [#35957]

Derwing, Tracey M. 1989. Information type and its relation to nonnative speaker comprehension. Language Learning 39 (2) : 157–172.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

background information | communicative success | comprehension | conversational strategy | native speaker

Place, Publisher

The University of Michigan

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/lang

Annotation

This study examines the relationship between information type, nonnative English speakers' English second language comprehension and communicative success.