Lateral Reading: Checking Websites in Spanish B1
Read a Spanish B1 account of a Stanford study comparing how fact-checkers, historians and students judged websites.
Leer de lado: una prueba de Stanford sobre páginas web
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What you'll learn
Vocabulary for evaluating online sources, lateral reading and cautious comparison
A Stanford study compared three groups evaluating live websites. The reading explains why professional fact-checkers opened other tabs and how this strategy differs from judging a site by appearance.
After reading
Article learning block
Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
lectura lateral
newlateral reading
A strategy of leaving an unfamiliar page to investigate it through other sources.
It names the central verification method in the article.
pensar en voz alta
newto think aloud
To say your thoughts while you are solving a task.
Useful for describing research methods and learning processes.
está detrás de
newto be behind something
Here it means to be the person or organization responsible for something.
It helps ask who created or funded information.
ir más allá de
newto go beyond
To examine more than the first or obvious limit.
Useful when recommending deeper analysis.
dejarse llevar por
newto be swayed by
To let an impression influence your judgment too strongly.
It warns against trusting appearance without evidence.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Sample
muestra
sample
The group of people or cases examined in a study.
A common word in reports about research.
Performance
desempeño
performance
How well someone carries out a task.
It lets you compare results without referring only to a final score.
Clue
pista
clue
A sign that may help you reach a conclusion.
Useful for discussing evidence that is suggestive but not decisive.
Support
respaldo
support
Evidence or authority that strengthens a claim.
A key word when evaluating whether a statement is well supported.
Origin
procedencia
origin
The place or source that something comes from.
It helps describe tracing a claim back to its source.
Misleading
engañosa
misleading
Likely to create a false impression.
Useful for describing signals that look trustworthy but may not be.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Aunque plus indicative
aunque una apariencia profesional no ofrecía por sí sola un respaldo suficiente
although a professional appearance did not provide enough support by itself
Aunque introduces a contrast treated here as an observed fact, so it takes the indicative ofrecía.
It helps contrast two real observations.
Antes de plus infinitive
antes de aceptarla
before accepting it
Antes de is followed by an infinitive when the subject remains the same. The pronoun la refers to una afirmación.
It expresses the order of two actions compactly.
No basta con plus infinitive
no basta con mirar
it is not enough to look
No basta con plus infinitive says that one action is insufficient.
It is a concise way to reject an incomplete method.
Quién in a direct question
quién está detrás
who is behind it
Quién keeps its accent because it introduces a direct question.
It helps form questions about responsibility or authorship.
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