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Peer reviewedScales, Alice M.; Burley, JoAnne E. – Negro Educational Review, 1984
Discusses factors contributing to high level of illiteracy in Senegal. Reports on study of Senegalese reading habits--participants enjoy reading, read newspapers often, would like to read better, and would take reading improvement courses if they were offered. (CMG)
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Foreign Countries, Illiteracy
Peer reviewedBurley, JoAnne E. – Negro Educational Review, 1980
Reports on a study comparing four reading practice methods (sustained silent reading, programed textbooks, programed cassette tapes, and programed skill development kits) used with Upward Bound students. Sustained silent reading was found to be significantly more successful in improving educationally deprived students' literal and inferential…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
