The Cognate Trap in Writing by Hispanic Students [microform] / Daniel Pearlman
- Bib ID:
- 5311854
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Pearlman, Daniel
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED132873
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1976
- 13 p.
- Summary:
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The occurrence of misleading cognates in the English compositions of students whose first language is Spanish can lead to a significant failure of communication between non-Spanish-speaking teachers and their students. Such a failure can produce attitudinal changes in both teacher and student that are potentially destructive to the learning process. A paragraph contrived by the author which is especially rich in misused cognates, all of them recurrent in the writings of his students, is presented in illustration of the problem. Copies of the paragraph were given to a group of college instructors who teach composition, and the critiques that some of them offered show the "cognate trap" in operation. The suggestion is made that bilingual resource people be an essential staff component of any department responsible for the teaching of English as a second language. (Author/KM)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (New York, New York, March 1976).
- Educational level discussed: Higher Education.
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- ERIC
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- Publication date:
- 1976
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