Getting Started: Reading Techniques that Work from the Very First Day.

Meyer, Renee M.; Tetrault, Emery W.

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Publication Date: 1988

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Getting Started: Reading Techniques that Work from the Very First Day.

Meyer, Renee M.; Tetrault, Emery W.

Foreign Language Annals, v21 n5 p423-31 Oct 1988

Provides a number of reading techniques and activities to demonstrate the feasibility of using real foreign language texts at the earliest stages of a beginning course. Examples in Dutch, Italian, Greek, Russian, Somali, and Japanese show how real texts in any language can be presented to beginners. (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: Adults, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Language Proficiency, Psycholinguistics, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Realia, Russian, Second Language Instruction, Somali, Uncommonly Taught Languages

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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