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ANALYSING COSTA RICAN AND SPANISH STUDENTS’ COMPARISONS OF PROBABILITIES AND RATIOS
We present an exploratory study of Costa Rican and Spanish students’ (11–16-year-olds) competence to compare probabilities in urns and compare ratios in mixture problems. A sample of 704 students in Grades 6 through to Grade 10, 292 from Costa Rica and 412 from Spain, were given one of two forms of a questionnaire with three probability comparison and ...
CARMEN BATANERO +2 more
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Objective: to perform the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the educational booklet "Prevention of sexual violence at school" for the reality of Costa Rica.
Alejandra Isabel Vargas Rivera +5 more
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Anglicismos usados en narraciones costarricenses en el volibol
The research is based on a closed relationship between culture and language. It has an exclusively lexicographic character. It compiles and describes the lexicon used by a sample of Costa Rican sports narrators.
Marjorie González Gómez
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Sisimique: Orígenes indígenas de un personaje del cuento popular costarricense
Este fue el discurso de incorporación del profesor Constenla a la Academia Costarricense de la Lengua Española. Tiene que ver con la etimología de la palabra sisimique y el origen del personaje de la narrativa popular costarricense que lleva este nombre.
Adolfo Constenla Umaña
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Lexicografía del español en Costa Rica, visión crítica
En este artículo el autor hace un análisis crítico de los estudios lexicográficos del español de Costa Rica de Carlos Gagini (1892) hasta la actualidad. In this article the author makes a critical analysis of the lexicographical studies of Costa Rican ...
Víctor Sánchez Corrales
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Inseguridad lingüística del universitario costarricense
Este artículo analiza las respuestas de 343 estudiantes universitarios de Costa Rica a la cuestión de si o no hablan español "bien" y por qué. Las justificaciones de sus respuestas a esta pregunta abierta, así como el bajo estatus asignado a los ...
Yamilet Solano Rojas
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This paper studies the validity of the School Climate Battery of Questionnaires for Secondary and High School Teachers (SCBQ-SHST). The battery includes five questionnaires: Quality of Leadership, Quality of Teachers’ Support, School Motivational ...
Jesús Alonso-Tapia +5 more
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Subjective reactions to phonological variation in Costa Rican Spanish [PDF]
The results of a subjective reaction test on a sample of 440 Costa Ricans indicate that in societies where educational levels are not generally high, social status groups may be differentiated phonologically by the use of prestigeful features rather than by stigmatized ones, contrary to findings regarding social dialects in the United States ...
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Polio Crisis in Costa Rica: Lessons Learned and Achievements
This presentation shows some of the consequences of the polio crisis in Costa Rica during the 1950’s, in order to preserve certain attitudes of Costa Ricans back then that are worth remembering: simplicity, solidarity and gratefulness.
Gioconda Vargas-Morúa +1 more
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This essay juxtaposes original translations of contrasting images from the novel En una silla de ruedas [In a Wheelchair] by Costa Rican writer Carmen Lyra and Poemas de la inmovilidad [Poems of Immobility] by Uruguayan writer Luisa Luisi to reveal how ...
Laura Kanost
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