Spanish-speaking students' use of cognate knowledge to infer the meaning of English words

Bilingualism

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 243-255

  Dressler, Cheryl ^a,d   Carlo, Maria S ^b   Snow, Catherine E ^c   August, Diane ^a   White, Claire E ^c  

^a CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^d Center for Applied Linguistics   (United States)

Author keywords

cognate strategy; cognate words; metalinguistic skills; Spanish English bilingualism; vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952345085     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728910000519     Document Type: Article

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