International Reading Association World Congress on Reading

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Proceedings of the International Reading Association World Congress on Reading
(5th, Vienna, Austria; August 12-14, 1974).

Part One: "Reading: An Expanding Concept" contains papers that examine such topics as literal comprehension, miscue analysis, and children's literature and reading.

Part Two: "Some Implications for the. Reading Curriculum" contains papers on such topics as language and the reader, language games and literacy, reading to learn, evaluation of progress in spare-time reading and sequence and structure in reading development.

Part Three: "Writing Systems and Early Reading: Comparative Perspectives" contains papers that examine such topics as writing systems in Japan, the teaching of spelling and some unexplained aspects of early reading.

Part Four: "The'Reader and the Media" contains papers on such topics as new developments on readability, content bias in adult reading materials and reading and television in the United States.

Part Five: "Special Problems" contains papers which discuss such topics as promoting reading habits, class size and reading-development, and reading comprehension in fifteen countries.

Part Six: "Raising Teaching Stadaards" contains papers on such topics as the rationale for competency based in service education and evaluation and accountability.