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Boettcher, Judith A. – 1978
When two adults read eleven paragraphs, assigned a meaning to the target word in each paragrah, and answered questions about their strategies for dealing with the difficult/unknown words, they exhibited four strategies, outside of actual definition, that skilled readers use to deal with such words. The most often used strategy is paragraph…
Descriptors: Adults, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Postsecondary Education
