Does basic skills education affect adults' literacy proficiencies and reading practices?

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 226-243

  Sheehan Holt, Janet K ^a   Smith, M Cecil ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040438665     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.35.2.2     Document Type: Article

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