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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Krashen, Stephen – TESOL Journal, 2011
This report continues the work of Krashen and Brown (2007), developing and evaluating a set of hypotheses for the development of academic proficiency. That article defined academic proficiency as having two components: academic language proficiency and knowledge of academic content.
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Reading Strategies, Recreational Reading, English for Academic Purposes
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Kim, Haeyoung; Krashen, Stephen – TESOL Journal, 1997
Discusses adult students of English as a Second Language who are dedicated readers in their primary language, yet have not considered reading as a means of developing their second language ability. Concludes that the case for free reading is strong and that teachers can encourage their students to engage in second language reading activities. (10…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Independent Reading, Korean Americans, Learning Strategies
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Mason, Beniko; Krashen, Stephen – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
File and Adams (2010) conclude that their data confirm the superiority of form-focused vocabulary instruction over incidental acquisition. The authors of this response argue that File and Adams's data actually confirm the reality, robustness, and possible superiority of incidental acquisition. Their subjects heard two passages read to them that…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Vocabulary, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development