Pleasure Reading Helps, Even If Readers Don't Believe It (Open to Suggestion).

Constantino, Rebecca

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ERIC Number: EJ481064

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1994

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Pleasure Reading Helps, Even If Readers Don't Believe It (Open to Suggestion).

Constantino, Rebecca

Journal of Reading, v37 n6 p504-05 Mar 1994

Describes how a course of pleasure reading (reading romance novels) improved the reading ability of three female foreign students to the point where they could with confidence handle university-level textbooks in their fields, which previously had led the students only to frustration. (SR)

Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Reading Ability, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Recreational Reading, Textbooks

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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