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Download full textGrenfell, Michael – 1992
This paper reviews the current crisis in reading ability decline in British primary schools and how modern language teaching methods are remedying this crisis, specifically the problems in exam and syllabus design. It is suggested that the juxtaposition of phonic and psycholinguistic methods in teaching reading are the root of the continuing…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Modern Language Curriculum, Reading Achievement
