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ERIC Number: EJ391042
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Comprehending Premises: Effects of Negations and Training among Anglos and Hispanics.
Mestre, Jose; And Others
NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, v12 n3 p243-79 Spr 1988
Examines comprehension of sentences with multiple negations among 71 monolingual Anglo and bilingual Hispanic undergraduate science and engineering majors. Finds that both groups misused rules of logic and natural discourse; similar groups benefited from training to eliminate inappropriate reasoning strategies, but only Anglos retained the benefits six months later. Contains 41 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Bilingual Students, Error Patterns, Hispanic Americans, Language Processing, Language Research, Logical Thinking, Negative Forms (Language), Reading Comprehension, Sentence Structure, Undergraduate Students
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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