Pragmatic Issues Related to Reading Comprehension Questions: A Case Study From a Latino Bilingual Cl...

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" Pragmatic Issues Related to Reading Comprehension Questions: A Case Study From a Latino Bilingual Classroom "
Field, Margaret

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	928723
Doc. No	:	LA7bw8h2dh
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Field, Margaret
Title & Author	:	Pragmatic Issues Related to Reading Comprehension Questions: A Case Study From a Latino Bilingual Classroom [Article]\ Field, Margaret
Title of Periodical	:	Issues in Applied Linguistics
Volume/ Issue Number	:	7/2
Date	:	1996
Abstract	:	This paper addresses some of the challenges which bilingual children transitioning to literacy in English may face when asked to answer reading comprehension questions which involve the interpretation and synthesis ofinformation about story characters' thoughts or feelings. Understanding of a character's perspective may depend on inference, rather than lexical content presented in a text Alternatively, prompt-questions may be framed such that lexical story content is required in the answer Such questions involve cognitive/ metapragmatic tasks related to linguistic competence in written English, as well as an understanding of the different types of knowledge associated with academic writing.