Designing Instruction for English Learners from
an Ecological Perspective of Language Learning

Lyn Scott

This study evaluates students' ability to
comprehend and interpret excerpts from Hugo's Les
Miserables as they pass from the intermediate to
the advanced stages of language learning. What
features of prose narratives are readers at the
French 4 vs. upper division levels able to
identify and respond to? Can they evaluate the
relationship between form and content when
reading a story, or do they tend to focus
primarily on the apparent message of a text or
the events of the plot?

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