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Download full textNagy, William E.; And Others – 1992
A study investigated how Hispanic bilingual students' knowledge of Spanish vocabulary and awareness of Spanish-English cognates influence comprehension of English expository text. The subjects, 74 upper elementary school students literate in both Spanish and English, were tested for vocabulary knowledge in both languages. After reading four…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Hancin-Bhatt, Barbara; Nagy, William – 1993
This study investigates the development of two levels of morphological knowledge that contribute to Spanish-English bilingual students' ability to recognize cognates: the ability to recognize a cognate stem within a suffixed English word, and knowledge of systematic relationships between Spanish and English suffixes (e.g., the fact that English…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingual Students, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students
