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Pierson, Herbert D. – 1988
The reading content offered in Hong Kong to advanced learners of English as a second language underestimates their intellectual capabilities. Material presented to second language learners is found to be linguistically correct but containing trivial, dull, and unchallenging cultural and intellectual content. This situation is closely related to…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Content Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Download full textLituanas, P. M.; Jacobs, G. M.; Renandya, W. A. – Online Submission, 2001
This article reports a six-month study that used a matched-pairs pre-test, post-test control group design to measure the relative effectiveness of extensive reading with remedial reading students in a Philippines secondary school (n = 60). Ninety percent of students at the school come from low-income homes where reading materials tend to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Program Effectiveness
