A Vocabulary Program for Junior High School Remedial Readers.

摘要: Although vocabulary knowledge Is widely recognized as an important component of reading ability, systematic instruction is seldom provided beyond the primary grades (Becker, 1977). This especially unfortunate for remedial readers, most whom have limited vocabularies. The problem particularly severe in secondary school, where content area courses require extensive specialized vocabularies (Herber, 1978). article describes a program which was developed readers junior high school. Its immediate goal to teach 180 words had been