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García, Georgia Earnest; Sacco, Lena J.; Guerrero-Arias, Beatriz Eugenia – Reading Teacher, 2020
Spanish-English cognates (words from ancestrally related languages similar in appearance and meaning) are plentiful in students' reading materials, but few researchers have documented elementary-age bilingual (Spanish-English) students' actual use of cognates. The authors drew from two qualitative research studies to show how bilingual students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Allington, Richard L.; McGill-Franzen, Anne – Reading Teacher, 1980
Reports on a study in which 12 good and 12 poor fourth-grade readers read selections in their original format and with the words in random order; concludes that the results indicate that word identification errors elicited on tests in isolation do not constitute a solid basis for predicting errors in connected text. (ET)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Connected Discourse, Context Clues, Elementary Education