Backwardness in Reading
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ditions under which the various experiments and researches were done, nor whether the terms used mean the same to one researcher as to another. One is therefore left with the frustrating feeling that though this, that, and the other experiment, or result, are quoted, one is never sure whether or not these results are comparable and therefore meaningful. It is a pity that the Hunter and Diack investigation is quoted and the groups which they compared were
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John Duncan, O.B.E.. Harrap 6? Co. Ltd. 6/' The fact that one third of the pupils who leave Secondary Modern and All Age Schools are backward in reading is an alarming one. In his short book, "Backwardness in Reading", John Duncan acknowledges that he has little that is new to tell us of the backward reader, his problems, prevention and cure. Nevertheless, one finds marshalled in this book, mos...
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