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Download full textMachet, Myrna; Olen, Sandra – 1996
A study in two South African schools investigated the impact of encouraging free, voluntary reading on the English language skills of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners. Subjects were 139 fourth- through seventh-grade students in an experimental group and 105 students in a control group. Pretests of reading comprehension were administered…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Olen, Sandra; Chamberlain, Amy; Machet, Myrna – 1999
This paper focuses on a 1997 pilot project carried out in five secondary schools in South Africa that examined children's reading and information use. This study (n=958) was part of a larger study from 1995 and 1996 carried out in the United Kingdom. The primary goal was to examine what young people are reading at the end of the 20th century. The…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
