Alejandra Meneses

  • Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  • Professor, Language & Linguistics
  • Chile

My co-authors include

Emily Galloway

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My Publications

Teachers’ scaffolding science reading comprehension in low-income schools: how to impro...

  • International Journal of Science Education
  • August 2019

The effects of multimodal texts on science reading comprehension in Chilean fifth-grade...

  • International Journal of Science Education
  • October 2018

Facilitating academic text-based discussions in initial teacher education: Evaluating s...

  • Teaching and Teacher Education
  • January 2018

Academic language and the quality of written arguments and explanations of Chilean 8th ...

  • Reading and Writing
  • December 2017

Academic Language as a Predictor of Reading Comprehension in Monolingual Spanish-Speaki...

  • Reading Research Quarterly
  • June 2017

Impact of a computer-based intervention in Chilean children at risk of manifesting read...

  • Journal for the Study of Education and Development
  • January 2017

Discusión productiva para la comprensión de textos: habilidades y conocimientos específ...

  • Estudios pedagógicos (Valdivia)
  • January 2016

Beyond Vocabulary: Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Academic-Language Proficiency and Its A...

  • Reading Research Quarterly
  • March 2015

Actividades de demostración sobre "Leyes de los Gases" en clases de Ciencias de 8° bási...

  • Estudios pedagógicos (Valdivia)
  • January 2015

Coherencia curricular y oportunidades para aprender Ciencias

  • Ciência & Educação (Bauru)
  • December 2014

Analysing the Semiotic Potential of Typographic Resources in Picture Books in English a...

  • International Research in Children s Literature
  • December 2014

Initial reading predictors in Spanish according to SES: is semi-transparency sufficient...

  • Studies in Psychology
  • September 2014

Core academic language skills: An expanded operational construct and a novel instrument...

  • Applied Psycholinguistics
  • March 2014

Género discursivo, sintaxis y lenguaje académico: Dimensiones comunicativas y cognitiva...

  • Didáctica Lengua y Literatura
  • September 2012

Construcción y validación de una prueba de evaluación de competencia lectora inicial ba...

  • Pensamiento Educativo Revista de Investigación Educacional Latinoamericana
  • April 2011

Leer y escribir en una escuela chilena: Representaciones discursivas de los diferentes ...

  • Revista signos
  • January 2008