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A process for the evaluation of learner goals, reading comprehension, and program impact as elements of adult literacy programs

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Haddon, R. Lance

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National statistics indicate that as many as 23 million adults in the United States are illiterate and another 40 million lack literacy skills necessary to function effectively or on more than a narrow basis in this society. People without literacy skills or who have only marginal reading ability find themselves...

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prepartations. To Mindy y Luis Sayavedra for so freely and generously opening their home and their remarkable
Urban ethnography : an exploration and interpretation of the post-camp period of Laotian refugees settling in Eugene-Springfield, Oregon

Creator:

Proudfoot, Robert Charles

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This study employed ethnographic methodology to investigate and record the post-camp, pre-assimilation period of Laotian refugees.The primary goal was to document the special problems and experiences of the Laotian population as they attempted to adjust to new roles and expectations within mainstream North American society.Oral histories and biographical statements focused...

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you now. do you remember one morning, how we were walking on that mud path to the village? The sun