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Do Content Area Passages Affect Student Performance on Reading Comprehension Tests?
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Peretz, Arna S. – 1986
A study conducted in Israel investigated the relevance of subject-specific reading passages to performance on reading comprehension tests for advanced university students of English as a second language. The research specifically examined (1) whether students performed better when the reading test content was directly related to their field of…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Decoding (Reading), English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language)