Searching for words: One strategic use of the mother tongue by advanced Spanish EFL writers

Studies of cognitive processes in SL writing have paid attention to the strategies that writers use to tackle problems in composing. In text-generation, finding lexical items in the L2 to express their meanings is one of the most crucial problems writers have to face, for reasons related to the avai...

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Language Usage
Lexical search
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Native Speakers
Persuasive Discourse
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