Alejandra Meneses

Beyond Vocabulary: Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Academic-Language Proficiency and Its Association With Reading Comprehension

Paola Uccelli, Emily Phillips Galloway, Christopher D. Barr et al. · Reading Research Quarterly · 2015 · 291 citations · Full text

Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Measurement +17

Core academic language skills: An expanded operational construct and a novel instrument to chart school-relevant language proficiency in preadolescent and adolescent learners

Paola Uccelli, Christopher D. Barr, Christina L. Dobbs et al. · Applied Psycholinguistics · 2014 · 212 citations

Language Studies, Educational Assessment, Educational Measurement +14

Academic Language as a Predictor of Reading Comprehension in Monolingual Spanish‐Speaking Readers: Evidence From Chilean Early Adolescents

Alejandra Meneses, Paola Uccelli, María Verónica Santelices et al. · Reading Research Quarterly · 2017 · 82 citations

Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Measurement +17

The effects of multimodal texts on science reading comprehension in Chilean fifth-graders: text scaffolding and comprehension skills

Alejandra Meneses, José‐Pablo Escobar, Soledad Véliz · International Journal of Science Education · 2018 · 46 citations

Education, Elementary Education, Science Education +17

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

Javiera Figueroa, Alejandra Meneses, Eugenio Chandía · Reading and Writing · 2017 · 28 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis +13