When you read in Spanish, you also grow accustomed to seeing the Spanish accent marks floating on top of the vowels that require them. This is one of the tricky things to master and, even though there are rules that can help you understand it, you’ll find it easier to remember those ...
Vernacular chroniclers mention many other heroic minstrel narratives, now lost, but, as a result of the incorporation of these narratives into chronicles, themes and textual passages can be reconstructed. Heroic narratives partially recovered include Los siete infantes de Lara (“The Seven Princes of ...
Practice reading in Spanish with these short passages. Read the passage and answer the questions in English and in Spanish.
The translation is given below the Spanish passages and each line is numbered for ease of understanding and for comparative purposes. This is a good way to get a taste of bilingual reading—it’s not too long or complicated! 15.Beelinguaapp This app is availablefor iPhoneandAndroid users. I...
Teachers read passages to the students each day and then asked questions about the vocabulary and key ideas. Teachers used probes to guide students in story retelling, pro- viding opportunities for each student to participate. During this time, teach- ers did not use a direct i...
The oral reading accuracy and oral reading fluency performance of the students were compared to the difficulty levels suggested by the formulas, along with correlations with other objective analyses of the passages. The Spanish readability formulas only weakly predicted student performance, indicating the...
to say reassuring!). There is also a lot of fun in the passages that skewer the Spanish film industry. Beholden to politics and funding issues, the project lurches from one director and producer to another, morphing dramatically with each shift so that the writer is constantly obliged to ...
Provide listening practice with different voices and accents, as well as listening to passages with background noise Have students practice asking questions, and thinking of questions to continue a dialogue, as they have to ask a question in the simulated conversation task ...
a member of parliament and one of the country's most high-profile political and social commentators, told Xinhua. "Does it really make sense, with all the problems Rome has, to punish people who might want to sit on the steps to read a few passages from Keats or Shelley, who lived and...
Provide listening practice with different voices and accents, as well as listening to passages with background noise Have students practice asking questions, and thinking of questions to continue a dialogue, as they have to ask a question in the simulated conversation task ...