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Cultural Priorities and the Acquisition of Literacy.
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Downing, John – International Review of Education, 1973
Recently a team of reading specialists from fourteen different nations completed a study in comparative reading with the aim of comparing literacy acquisition in countries with different cultures and languages in an attempt to derive new hypotheses regarding sociological, psychological, and linguistic variables in learning to read and write.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Education, Cultural Influences, Educational Sociology