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High point narrative structure in mother-child conversations about the past and children’s emergent literacy skills in Costa Rica

Actualidades en Psicología, 2013
. The relationship between narrative coherence in mother-child conversations about past events and children’s concurrent emergent literacy was examined in a sample of 32 Spanish-speaking, middle-class, Costa Rican mothers and their preschoolers ...
Alison Sparks, Ana María Carmiol-Barboza, Marcela Ríos   +2 more
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Teaching english literature in costa rican experimental bilingual high schools: EFL teachers’ academic training.

Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa, 2017
This article presents the most relevant results found in the “Licenciatura” graduation research project for the BA in Teaching English offered by the University of Costa Rica, Campus Occidente.
Karla Araya Araya , Priscila Campos Rosales, Erika González Mora, Gerardina Marín Madrigal , Kattia Rojas Suárez , Catalina Sánchez Alvarado   +5 more
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A Descriptive Analysis of Pronunciation Errors Made by Costa Rican Spanish L1 Learners of English as a Foreign Language

Revista Educación
This paper seeks to widen current knowledge on pronunciation instruction by exploring segmental pronunciation errors and their numerical prevalence. Specifically, the main goal of this corpus-aided investigation is twofold: (a) to identify the pronunciation errors in vowel and consonant production and (b) to recognize the pronunciation errors ...
Henry Angulo Jiménez, Marisela Bonilla López   +1 more
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Pronouns of address in Costa Rican Spanish. A dialectological, sociolinguistic and pragmatic approach

, 2022
Notre recherche nous a mené au constat selon lequel les formes de désignation de l’allocutaire en espagnol costaricien sont dans une lutte constante entre standardisation et changement linguistique, ainsi qu’entre norme et variation. Par exemple, l’approche diachronique (chapitre 1) nous a permis de conclure que le pronom usted a toujours été lié à une
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Framing the Islamic State: A Comparison of Al Jazeera English and USA Today [PDF]

, 2016
A current insecurity embattling the international community is the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), a terrorist organization contending to establish a caliphate in the Middle East.
Chetcuti, Marie
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Spartan Daily March 22, 2010 [PDF]

, 2010
Volume 134, Issue 28https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1244/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Don Arturo Agüero, filólogo y romanista

Káñina, 2007
"Monumentum aere perennius exegi" (Horacio, Odas, III, No. 30. 1.1.) - "Acabé un monumento más duradero que el bronce". El poeta latino, mediante este símil-metáfora, expresa que le ha legado a la humanidad una obra inmortal, que, como tal, traspasará ...
Manuel Antonio Quirós Rodríguez
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Immigrant-Native Substitutability: The Role of Language Ability [PDF]

Wage evidence suggests that immigrant workers are imperfectly substitutable for native-born workers with similar education and experience. Using U.S. Censuses and recent American Community Survey data, I ask to what extent differences in language skills ...
Ethan G. Lewis
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Communication Is Easy for This Natural-Born Talker [PDF]

, 2008
Aaron Larsen ’08 parlayed his natural talent for talking into success as a debater and ...
Richter, Kasey, \u2709
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Lexical correspondences in Costa Rican Spanish: chicheme

, 2018
The geographical variation and dispersion of the lexicon is an indication of the formation of dialect areas and cultural traditions shared by speaking communities. This article examines the case of the word chicheme for evidence of the linguistic and cultural links between the northwest region, the Caribbean and the southern zone of Costa Rica.
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