As a result, students were often able to read and understand texts, but they could not per form in the language they were studying.
The writing style is clear and straightforward and the text is liberally illustrated with figures.
Although acknowledging scholarship that challenges the reading of texts about women as straightforward evidence of female piety, he chooses to do so anyway.
The meaning of tables and figures and the argument in general demand close attention to the text, whose style tends to the abstract and convoluted.
The result is a mass of quantitative material, covered in 159 statistical tables, with much more data included in the text.
These sources, both linguistic (intraand interlingual) and extralinguistic, represent the learners' own knowledge interacting with cues from the words themselves and the surrounding text.
It has been noted that social reconstructions from these texts vary in a surprising number of ways.
From each of these four programs and for each grade, three reading texts were selected at random.
