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Peer reviewedGrabe, William – Prospect, 1994
Explores a number of reasons for the limited benefits of second-language (L2) reading research and instruction interactions. Nine issues (including vocabulary development and fluency) viewed as dilemmas for L2 reading are examined. Alternative directions for research and instruction are suggested for certain issues; for other issues, the dilemmas…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Language Fluency
Peer reviewedClark, Romy J. – Prospect, 1994
Discusses the limitations of dominant notions of background knowledge (BGK) as neutral information and objective knowledge and of the reading techniques that accompany these notions. The article argues that the notion of BGK should be broadened to include awareness of the social processes of production and interpretation of text. (26 references)…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, Class Activities, English (Second Language)
Reading As Situated Social Practice: What Counts As a Proper Reading in an Adult Numeracy Classroom?
Peer reviewedBaynham, Mike – Prospect, 1994
Explores what an emphasis on reading as social practice can tell us about the nature of reading. The article maintains that what counts as a "proper" reading of the text is highly constrained by the classroom context and that classrooms should be discourse sites where specific ways of reading are required and particular regimes of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedMartin, J. R. – Prospect, 1994
Explores the issue of reading positions from the perspective of one aspect of appraisal in English. The analysis focuses on the realization of judgment in history texts, taking note of explicit and implied realizations, and the range of reading positions (compliant, resistant, or tactical) that might be taken up. (nine references) (Author)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educationally Disadvantaged, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHood, Sue; Joyce, Helen – Prospect, 1994
Recent attention to the teaching of reading in adult English- as-a-Second-Language courses has prompted us to trace the major shifts in reading pedagogy that have occurred in the Adult Migrant English Program. Reference is made to some key resources and research that have reflected and shaped practice in the teaching of reading. (21 references)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedNixon, Ursula – Prospect, 1996
Reports the analysis of entries in journals kept by Vietnamese teachers enrolled in teacher education programs for teaching English to speakers of other languages in Australia. Notes ways in which overseas students can be given support by those responsible for teaching English as a foreign language. (Six references) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for…
Descriptors: Culture Conflict, Educational Environment, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
