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Adult Second Language Reading in the USA: The Effects of Readers' Gender and Test Method
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Brantmeier, Cindy – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2006
Bernhardt (2003) claims that half of the variance in second language (L2) reading is accounted for by first language literacy (20%) and second language knowledge (30%), and that one of the central goals of current L2 reading research should be to investigate the 50% of variance that remains unexplained. Part of this variance takes consists of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Research, Gender Differences, Test Format