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Direct linkAllen, Kate; Ingulsrud, John E. – Language and Education, 2005
Sales of manga or Japanese comics dominate the publishing market in Japan. Manga cater to a wide variety of readers, ranging from children's comics to adult pornography. In this paper, we focus on adolescent readers and describe patterns of learning to read manga. The findings demonstrate the importance of belonging to a community of readers since…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials
