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Peer reviewedField, Margaret – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1996
Addresses challenges faced by bilingual children transitioning to literacy in English when answering reading comprehension questions requiring interpretation and synthesis of information related to fictitious characters' thoughts. Notes that understanding a character's perspective may depend on inference, rather than on lexical content within a…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Context Clues, Critical Reading


