Buddy Reading, a peer tutoring programme, is popularly adopted in Singapore schools to increase the reading proficiency of lower primary children who are not reading at age appropriate levels. However, this programme is rarely subjected to systematic evaluation. In view of this, the present study undertakes an evaluation of the programme as it is…

Concludes that children in Singapore who are learning to read English as their third language seem to read about as well as American children one-and-one-half years younger. (FL)