Beware the Reading Block, My Son.

Winer, Lise

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ERIC Number: EJ336062

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Publication Date: 1986

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Beware the Reading Block, My Son.

Winer, Lise

TESL Talk, v16 n1 p42-56 1986

Describes a technique for teaching students of English as a second language to understand English passages through structural and contextual clues. Gives detailed steps of the technique using Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" as the text. (SED)

Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), English for Academic Purposes, Form Classes (Languages), Higher Education, Literature, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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