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Download full textBlair, Thomas E. – 1980
The suspicion that some second language learners' problems in reading can be attributed to a lack of literacy in general rather than to a lack of fluency in English per se motivated the present study. The hypothesis suggests that readers learn literacy only once and that a lack of literacy in one's first language can be more of a barrier to…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Research
