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ERIC Number: EJ323873
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1984
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Cultural Interference in Reading Comprehension: An Alternative Explanation.
Cabello, Beverly
Bilingual Review, v11 n1 p12-20 Jan-Apr 1984
Describes cultural bias at four levels: lexico-syntactic, content and concepts, social and cognitive, and schematic or frame of reference. A study is described which provides examples of cultural bias in reading comprehension items because of a mismatch between the culture of the test item and that of the test taker.
Descriptors: Bias, Cultural Context, Elementary School Students, English, Inferences, Item Analysis, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Spanish Speaking, Standardized Tests
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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