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The creation and field testing of a teaching unit focused on positive transfer of Spanish/English cognates with a group of 7th graders in a public school in Puerto Rico

dc.contributor.advisor Dayton, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.author Sánchez-Belén, Stephanie
dc.contributor.college College of Arts and Sciences - Arts en_US
dc.contributor.committee Rivera, Rosita
dc.contributor.committee Morales Caro, Betsy
dc.contributor.committee Carroll, Kevin S.
dc.contributor.department Department of English en_US
dc.contributor.representative Canabal, Yolanda
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-09T14:59:42Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-09T14:59:42Z
dc.date.issued 2012
dc.description.abstract In Puerto Rico (PR), language transfer can be defined as the influence of L1 Spanish on the production and acquisition of L2 English. In the Puerto Rican public schools, few instructional materials make use of cognates and positive transfer for vocabulary and reading development. To fill this gap, this thesis had and achieved five objectives: 1) to create a five-lesson teaching unit, The Cognates Unit, focused on true and false Spanish/English cognates, 2) to create activities for the lessons to promote positive transfer of true cognates, 3) to create activities for the lessons to reduce negative transfer of false cognates, 4) to field test the activities with a group of 7th graders in a public school in southwestern PR and then to analyze the data created as a result of the field test, and 5) to explore the attitudes of the 7th graders towards the teaching unit, lessons, and activities.
dc.description.abstract En Puerto Rico (PR), transferencia de lenguaje puede definirse como la influencia del español en la producción y adquisición del segundo idioma, inglés. En las escuelas públicas de PR, pocos materiales didácticos usan transferencia positiva de cognados para desarrollar lectura y vocabulario. Para llenar este vacío, esta tesis tenía y logró cinco objetivos: 1) crear una unidad didáctica, The Cognates Unit, de cinco lecciones enfocada en verdaderos y falsos cognados en español/inglés 2) crear actividades para las lecciones que promuevan transferencia positiva de cognados verdaderos, 3) crear actividades para las lecciones que reduzcan transferencia negativa de falsos cognados, 4) hacer una prueba de campo de las actividades con un grupo de 7mo grado en una escuela pública en el suroeste de PR y analizar la resultados obtenidos de la prueba de campo, y 5) explorar las actitudes de los alumnos del 7mo grado hacia la unidad didáctica, lecciones y actividades.
dc.description.graduationSemester Fall en_US
dc.description.graduationYear 2012 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11801/356
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.rights.holder (c) 2012 Stephanie Sánchez Belén en_US
dc.rights.license All rights reserved en_US
dc.subject Cognate words en_US
dc.subject English language-cognate words en_US
dc.subject Public schools en_US
dc.subject Lesson planning en_US
dc.subject Reading development en_US
dc.subject.lcsh English language -- Study and teaching (Middle school) -- Puerto Rico en_US
dc.subject.lcsh English language -- Cognate words en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Reading (Middle schools) en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Vocabulary -- Study and teaching en_US
dc.title The creation and field testing of a teaching unit focused on positive transfer of Spanish/English cognates with a group of 7th graders in a public school in Puerto Rico en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dspace.entity.type Publication
thesis.degree.discipline English Education en_US
thesis.degree.level M.A.E.E. en_US
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