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ERIC #:EJ359144
Title:Adult Illiterates Processing Narrative and Expository Text.
Authors:Fagan, William T.
Descriptors:Adult Literacy; Adult Reading Programs; Adults; Cognitive Processes; Educationally Disadvantaged; Literacy Education; Reading Processes; Reading Research; Reading Skills; Reading Strategies; Remedial Reading
Source:English Quarterly, v20 n2 p95-105 Sum 1987
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Publication Date:1987-00-00
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Abstract:Presents the results of a study on how adult illiterates process text, which showed that adults engaged in a greater degree of meaning-related processing and more graphemic and graphophonic processing in expository text. Adults were more successful with narrative text. (JC)
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Identifiers:Expository Text; Narrative Text
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Languages:English
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