Investigates why some middle school students appear to be good decoders but have problems with reading comprehension. Shows that their listening comprehension was no better than their reading comprehension, and thus rather than needing further instruction in decoding, they require assistance in developing their general language and listening…

Recommends that because a person's beliefs radically restrict one's perception of events, students need to be taught to detect the beliefs of those involved in reporting current events. (AEA)

Results of two studies in Australia indicate that matching cloze exercises adequately measure reading comprehension skills of secondary ESL students. (MKM)

Describes an Israeli reading program for disadvantaged adolescents based on verbal exercises using informative, literary, and speculative texts to improve their reading comprehension and cognitive functions. (HOD)

Describes research conducted in France on text readability and suggests that readability formulas give high scores to redundant texts that have no great interest and penalize texts with original information. Argues that a coefficient should be incorporated into readability formulas that reflects the nature of the text. (MKM)

Reviews secondary school reading research in reading comprehension, vocabulary development, reading interests and habits, textbooks, teaching procedures, and reading in content areas published between 1959 and 1988 in Nigeria. Looks at Nigerian research results from a global perspective. Suggests areas for future research. (RS)

Reports findings of a study involving adult, college-educated Egyptians enrolled in English as a second language courses in Cairo. Concludes that students learning to read in a second language interpret materials in terms of their own culture, which affects their comprehension. (FL)