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Peer reviewedHickey, Tina – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1991
Study of the effect of supplying audio tapes to accompany leisure reading books in Irish found that the tapes considerably increased native-English-speaking elementary school students' motivation to read, facilitated comprehension, and increased the children's reading rate and pronunciation accuracy. (36 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Elementary Education, Foreign Language Books, Irish
