L2-Reading in the Content Areas: Text Comprehension in Secondary Education in the Netherlands.

Hacquebord, Hilde

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ERIC Number: EJ492756

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Publication Date: 1994

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L2-Reading in the Content Areas: Text Comprehension in Secondary Education in the Netherlands.

Hacquebord, Hilde

Journal of Research in Reading, v17 n2 p83-98 Sep 1994

Assesses text comprehension of secondary Turkish and Dutch pupils in relation to vocabulary, grammar, nonverbal IQ, and background knowledge. Finds that the L2-readers tended toward a top-down approach to reading. Finds a significant increase in scores for word knowledge and nonverbal IQ but no progress in the scores for text comprehension. (SR)

Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Second Language Learning, Secondary Education

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands

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