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Peer reviewedLewkowicz, Nancy K. – Journal of Reading, 1987
Refutes six arguments commonly used to discredit remedial teaching of decoding skills to young adults in order to motivate both researchers and teachers to reexamine the role of decoding skills in reading in the upper grades and beyond. (SKC)
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Decoding (Reading), Functional Reading, Higher Education
