Projects
Content-Based Vocabulary Instruction: Using Cognates to Promote the Vocabulary Development of Native Spanish Speakers
(also known as Enhancing Vocabulary Through Cognate Awareness or EVOCA)
Funder: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
June 2007 – May 2011
In collaboration with the University of Connecticut, CAL is developing and testing the efficacy of two cognate-based interventions on the vocabulary development, morphological awareness, and reading comprehension of native Spanish speakers in the middle school grades.
This project is linked to another CAL research program, Vocabulary Instruction and Assessment for Spanish Speakers.