the need of teaching explicitly cognates in order to improve reading comprehension in students of second grade in high school in Chile

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This article aims to illustrate the need of explicit instruction of cognates in English classes of Chilean high schools in order to improve students’ reading comprehension. Nowadays young students are not used to read very often even in their own mother tongue, there is a lack of concentration, so it makes even more difficult to read in a foreign language pieces of text with words that they barely understand. The role that cognates play at English language learning is vital, they are the bridge that connect previous words with new words and vocabulary. As Ramirez and Philominraj (2018) suggested, it is experience what activates intelligence and makes people get knowledge. This means that the activation of previous knowledge will create new knowledge, and little by little the learner will store more words in his little brain.

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