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S5-E8: Linguistic structure: English vs. Spanish: Dr. Desirée Pallais-Downing

Science of Reading: The Podcast

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The Syntax in Spanish and English in the Classroom

The last component I didn't cover is comprehension and maybe the syntax aspect of Spanish. The syntax in Spanish is a lot more flexible than in English. So when students may construct sentences that may seem incomprehensible, consider hey, maybe they're transferring their syntactic structures from Spanish to English.

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