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Publication details [#32905]

Carrell, Patricia L. 1991. Second Language Reading: Reading Ability or Language Proficiency? Applied Linguistics 12 (2) : 159–179.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language proficiency | reading comprehension | reading, L2-acquisition of

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study demonstrates that both first language reading abilities and second language proficiency affect the second language reading skills of adult native speakers of Spanish and English who are foreign or second language learners of the other language.