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Peer reviewedMartinez, Maria Stella – English for Specific Purposes, 1994
The use of the cognate recognition strategy to enhance reading comprehension in a Latin American English-for-Special-Purposes context is considered. Focus is on the subtechnical vocabulary found in 40 texts from English engineering magazines, first describing vocabulary identification techniques and then assessing whether the items have Spanish…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Engineering, English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology
