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Peer reviewedBarry, Sue; Lazarte, Alejandro A. – Modern Language Journal, 1995
This study tested the effect of embedded clauses on recall for 48 English-speaking high school students reading Spanish historical texts. It found that the complexity of sentence structure seemed to cancel the advantage of previous exposure to the content domain. Contains 39 references. (MDM)
Descriptors: Context Effect, Difficulty Level, High School Students, Latin American History
