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Peer reviewedGombert, Jean Emile – Annals of Dyslexia, 1994
Illiterate immigrant adults (n=14) in France were assessed on ability to master three metalinguistic tasks: judgment of phonological length of words, initial consonant deletion, and lexical segmentation of sentences. Performance of illiterates and partial illiterates dramatically improved after training which involved corrective feedback and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Difficulty Level
