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The Effect of Students' Academic Discipline on Their Performance on ESP Reading Tests.
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Alderson, J. Charles; Urquhart, A. H. – Language Testing, 1985
Reviews earlier studies of the effect of student background knowledge on reading comprehension and then reports on a third investigation into the same effect. Concludes that the test results obtained in the study can be accounted for in terms of an interaction between background knowledge and linguistic proficiency. (Author/SED)
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