Development of a cognate awareness measure for Spanish-speaking English language learners

Language Testing

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 495-519

  Malabonga, Valerie ^a   Kenyon, Dorry M ^a   Carlo, Maria ^b   August, Diane ^a   Louguit, Mohammed ^a  

^a CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied linguistics; Cognates; English language learners; Morphological awareness; Spanish speaking children; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 61549091128     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: 14770946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265532208094274     Document Type: Article

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