Teaching Educationally Disadvantaged Adults to Read.

Autor/in	Schnell, Thomas R.
Titel	Teaching Educationally Disadvantaged Adults to Read.
Quelle	(1973), (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Adult Education; Adult Reading Programs; Adult Students; Educationally Disadvantaged; High Interest Low Vocabulary Books; Reading Achievement; Reading Instruction; Reading Interests; Reading Materials; Remedial Programs; Remedial Reading; Student Motivation; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Leseleistung; Leseunterricht; Leseinteresse; Förderprogramm; Leseförderung; Schulische Motivation; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	This study compares the effectiveness of two approaches to teaching survival reading skills to 50 semi-literate adults. One group was given reading instruction from high interest-low vocabulary reading materials at appropriate levels of difficulty according to their results on the Gray Oral Reading Test, Form A. The second group was given reading instruction in materials selected because of their frequency of use in daily activities, such as newspapers, magazines, forms for welfare payments, driver's licenses, appliance warranties, and job applications with no attention given to the readability level of any of the materials. Following four months of small group tutoring three times a week, both groups were retested with Form B of the Gray Oral and were administered a questionnaire to assess their feelings about the program and how much they felt it helped them. The second group made significant gains on the post-test and also had more positive feelings about the program. Findings indicated that increases in performance were more closely related to motivation than to instructional materials. (Author/TO)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01