Extensive Reading and Language Acquisition: Is There a Correlation? [microform] : A Two-Part Study / Steve Schackne
- Bib ID:
- 5587662
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Schackne, Steve
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- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED388110
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1994
- 28 p.
- Summary:
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A 1986 study concerning the effectiveness of extensive reading in improving second language learning, and its replication in 1994-95, are reported. In the original study, four classes of English as a Second Language in a Taiwan university were used as experimental and control groups, the only difference in instruction being the use of extensive reading for pleasure in one. All experimental classes showed greater gains in reading skills. A study using both the same and additional measurement instruments and a much larger sample was undertaken at that university and another in Macau; results at the latter institution are reported here. Again, experimental group gains were greater than control group gains, but at a lower level of significance. Possible explanations for this discrepancy in results are discussed. A 29-item list of student readers is included. Contains 22 references. (MSE)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual International Conference of the Institute of Language in Education (Hong Kong, December 1994).
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