Learning from Graded Readers.

Wodinsky, Marilyn; Nation, Paul

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Publication Date: 1988

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Learning from Graded Readers.

Wodinsky, Marilyn; Nation, Paul

Reading in a Foreign Language, v5 n1 p155-61 Fall 1988

A word frequency study of two graded readers and an unsimplified text indicated that graded readers facilitated better foreign-language reading and vocabulary learning than did unsimplified texts. It was found that students needed to read several same-level texts to master vocabulary, and that vocabulary mastery was not necessary for successful reading at the next higher level. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Readability Formulas, Reading Achievement, Reading Materials, Second Language Learning, Textbook Evaluation, Vocabulary Development, Word Frequency

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