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Adult Second-Language Reading Research: How May It Inform Assessment and Instruction?
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Carlo, Maria S.; Sylvester, Ellen Skilton – 1996
Research studies on how adults learn and develop second-language reading competence were considered in the context of a componential theory of reading. In particular, C. A. Perfetti's Verbal Efficiency Theory (VET) was used as a framework in which to organize and evaluate the studies' contribution to the field of second-language reading. The…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Componential Analysis, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods