COGNADOS EN INGLES

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A cognate is a word that is similar in pronunciation and writing in two languages.

Perfect cognates

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Partial cognates

False cognates

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COGNATES AS A RESOURCE FOR UNDERSTANDING

Use of cognates in reading comprehension (Utility)

• Psychophysiological mechanisms intervene in this process that helps reader actively interacts with text, achieving its total decoding.

• The use of cognates makes it easier to know the context of an unknown topic.

• Cognate recognition is the ability to use native language cognates as a tool to understand a second language.

• They are frequently used as educational strategies among students of different school grades.

• Some do not need the use of a dictionary for their translation, which makes it easier for the reader to look up other words.

• False cognates must be differentiated as they can cause confusion in the reader

• Cognates improve the reader's confidence in learning the language allowing rapid academic progress.

Group of words that are spelled the same in both languages although the pronunciation maybe different

FESTIVAL = FESTIVAL

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A false cognate is a word that, due to similarities in appearance or meaning, appears to be related to another word from a different language, but is not actually related.

Because they have the same etymological root, their meaning can be the same in two languages, or it can be completely different.

1. The variation consists of eliminating the vowel "o" from the word, so that it remains in English.
2. Those ending in "tion" are also located in this category.

The ((e , y) in English is changed by another vowel.