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Young, Dolly Jesusita – Foreign Language Annals, 1993
Cognitive and affective responses to one authentic and three edited texts were examined with four levels of university-level learners of Spanish. Results indicated that all students comprehended significantly more from the authentic passage than from the edited ones and also responded more favorably to the authentic passages. (Contains 47…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Editing, Instructional Materials, Language Acquisition
Lectura y Vida: Revista Latinoamericana de Lectura, 1996
The four 1996 issues of the journal, written entirely in Spanish and intended for reading teachers, include articles on these topics: design of the school and classroom environment for reading; a university experiment in cooperative learning and learning strategies; use of portfolios for evaluation of student work; evaluation of reading…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Childrens Literature