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Davis, Andréa K.; Bowman, Natalie; Kaushanskaya, Margarita – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Background: The goal of this study was to examine the effect of cognates on Spanish-English bilingual children's English reading fluency. Because cognates lead to higher levels of non-target language activation, we hypothesised that the presence of cognates would result in reduced reading fluency for bilingual children. Methods: Monolingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English, Reading Fluency
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Albrechtsen, Dorte – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1997
A study compared the writing strategies used by an adolescent in two essays, one in Danish (native language) and one in English (second language), assigned as homework. Analysis of think-aloud protocols focused on four behaviors: commenting; reading aloud; writing; and verbatim verbalizations of text before writing. Analysis found very similar…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Danish