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Peer reviewedElbro, Carsten; And Others – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1995
Interviews 1124 Danish adults about reading habits/skills, and tests 445 individually at home using six common texts covering types of everyday reading. Finds that 3% of participants have severe functional reading difficulties; another 9% have moderate difficulties. Pinpoints several predictors of reading difficulties: age, limited basic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Reading Difficulties, Reading Habits
Doltas, Dilek; Sevgen, Cevza – 1982
As part of the interdisciplinary Turko-Danish Fairytale Project, both an introspection and an essay study were conducted with Turkish university prep-school students and junior college students to determine their responses to three fairytales: "The Snake, the Fox, and the Man,""The Gold Apple," and "Per Smed's Whip."…
Descriptors: Essays, Fairy Tales, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries
