Years of primary schooling and months of language lessons explain 70% of variance in adults' total literacy scores; age and years of residence do not predict¶
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q3 i? In a stepwise regression on the total literacy score, years of schooling in the home country was the main explanatory variable and months of L2/literacy lessons the second; age and residence were excluded. → Kurvers 2009
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Kurvers 2009¶
Kurvers, J., Van Hout, R., & Vallen, T. (2009). Print awareness of adult illiterates: a comparison with young pre-readers and low-educated adult readers. Read Writ 22, 863-887. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-008-9129-7
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Correlational and stepwise regression analysis of adult background variables against the total literacy score. The article reports the percentage explained variance is high (70%), with Beta 0.699 for years of schooling.
"Besides the high and significant correlation with years of elementary education that could be expected ( r = .82, p = 0.000), the correlation with months of adult education lessons turned out to be significant as well (r = .55, p = 0.00), while the correlations with age ( r =- .11) and years of residence ( r =- .15) were not."
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Years of primary schooling and months of language lessons explain 70% of variance in adults' total literacy scores; age and years of residence do not predict |
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Years of primary schooling and months of language lessons explain 70% of variance in adults' total literacy scores; age and years of residence do not predict |
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